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...Post Brotha,” which benefit from an incisive cameo by Common, both showcase a talent for toying with the nuances of electronic music that was only hinted at on the previous album (though the dance remix of “He Loves Me” seems pretty pointless). “Gimme” features Scott wailing the title like a demented but funky child, to great effect, while her backing singers echo the demand. And not one of these songs, with the notable exception of the 11-minute “Thickness,” lasts much...
...Senior Bush administration officials have argued for some time that the Middle East and Gulf regions cannot be stabilized as long as the post-Gulf War stalemate remains in place. And despite a decade of sanctions, no-fly zones, and a pointless air campaign by the Clinton administration, Saddam's regime remains firmly entrenched. In Tuesday's address, President Bush appeared to be preparing his nation for the inevitability of a showdown...
...eliminate him and destroy his assets. Radical Islamists everywhere who might once have raised a skeptical eyebrow at the lofty pretensions of bin Laden's rhetorical tilting at the U.S. suddenly treated him with new respect. It was as if the scale of the Clinton administration's tactically pointless retaliation had confirmed bin Laden's claims to be leading a global jihad against the Americans...
Unrealistic, you cry. Utterly pointless, a waste of precious response-paper writing time. But why? Why, when we farm ourselves out to Habitats for Humanity and soup kitchens in Roxbury, can we not turn the philosophy of community service onto our own, where it is so conspicuously absent? Only in this way can we become full-fledged members of a community, and not just advocates of one. Only in this way does our rhetoric become something quite useful, and only in this way can we turn a debate mired in the Bushism of good versus evil to one that?...
...some time to come. "I would not want to [bring] children into a world where people are continuously fighting each other," says 23-year-old Berliner Nada Todorovic. Explains Prague resident Alena Svobodova, a 57-year-old retired opera producer: "I have realized that any long-term planning is pointless because you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow...