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...little studio that we kept in the toolshed . . . there was a lot of equipment, equipment that looked as if it would sever a limb. I spent a lot of my childhood in that studio, with my head in a vise as my poppy beat me with a cattle prod. A lot of the stuff that we produce today in these multi-million dollar studios, with all the fancy equipment, with the vises made of softest velvet, just don't compare to the songs I made in that little toolshed studio. Something about that studio was never really recaptured...
...Thursday made matters more difficult with the thumb-in-your-eye demand that the Albanians publicly renounce their dream of independence. Madeleine Albright again brandished the threat of air strikes if the Serbs torpedo the talks. That threat, plus the return of the British and French foreign ministers to prod the talks along, confirms that progress is slow. But NATO is hoping to move things along with its combination of bomb threats and buffets...
...import, and try to import from nations with agreeable governments and fair labor laws. This would encourage foreign democratization, reduce our economic dependence on volatile nations and invigorate the U.S. oil industry. Increasing gasoline taxes--currently, our prices are far below those of other industrial nations--would prod the auto industry and consumers towards the nascent inevitable revolution of efficient vehicles. It's time for the US to abandon its dirty policies which have marked the 20th century: polluting the planet and supporting oppression abroad...
...time it was all over, it was clear that impeachment had more to do with the elections than the elections will have to do with impeachment. Everyone got just what he or she wanted out of Thursday's vote. The Republicans got a red-hot poker to prod any reluctant followers to the polls: the prospect that they might take the 42nd President, whose success they could not contain, and toss him out of office. That's a lot to boast about in some places. And the Democrats got all kinds of ammunition to rally their faithful and broil their...
...calling for stricter standards in slaughterhouses and tighter inspection procedures to keep E. coli-contaminated meat out of the food chain. While this has been a common refrain in the past after outbreaks of salmonella and other food-borne pathogens, the severity of the O157 outbreaks may at last prod the government into action. President Clinton is proposing a modest $100 million in new funding to improve food safety, but he is still meeting resistance in Congress...