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...convincingly portray the naïveté the songs profess. She comes closest to exploding free of that shy facade in the jump to the chorus of the bouncy “Number One Son,” an album standout that keeps with the theme of precious childhood love. This creates a pleasing balance with the weighty “Your Picture,” a dark Leonard Cohen-like dirge, which strikes out a vivid character sketch: “She told me you’d given up drinking / to be with somebody you knew...
Some students spent their precious e-mails complaining to the Adams-schmooze list about the network problems—the origin of which eluded Harvard’s computer professionals...
...Come Away with Me was "too mellow" and "too cool" and that Feels like Home sounds like a correction. The tempo is noticeably jauntier, and the band is more confident, even roguish, as it wanders in and out of jazz, country and bluegrass riffs. Jones also sounds significantly less precious. She perfected an innocent sensuality on Come Away with Me, but on songs like What Am I to You? and the terrific In the Morning, Jones proves she can do sex and jealousy without compromising her aura of propriety. There are still moments when she comes off like a young...
...hurt you with someone, no matter how you answer it. Clark responded that he didn't know the facts of the case, but he said, "I've seen this charge bandied about a lot" and that Moore was entitled to his opinion. That meant Clark had to spend precious time the next day answering the same question over and over, until he finally declared, "I can't agree with Michael Moore." But by then the damage was already done...
...Lord God Almighty ... but every religion I've ever studied agrees that people who have advantages in life have an obligation to help those who don't have advantages." The emotional heart of the speech, though, is Clark's dismay over the Bush Administration's misuse of "the precious lives of our men and women in uniform" in Iraq--and that is where he will often run into problems. At times, his passion spills over into an almost Deanian imprudence. At a Texas fund raiser last week, Clark thundered, "We're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest Administration...