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...straining to see what’s coming, writing with the passion of the discoverers in the sestet of Keats’ “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” In a world that is, above all, confused by its own amazing progress, Powers is a stabilizing force, taking a step back, slowing down, to show us, our hearts and heads alike, what we are doing, and where we are going.The book’s final punchline comes from its subtitle. Just about every cover of a Powers book has the subtitle...
...light-heartedness of the instrumentation makes the pathos inherent in Vernon’s voice less grounded, resulting in a track that is simultaneously light and catchy yet deep and moving. The album emerges an intriguing and surprising experiment. Several of the songs are so freeform that they progress along an undetermined path, ending with little resolution or warning. The opening track, “Husks and Shells,” begins with acoustic guitars tuning and warming up in the distance. Eventually, the guitars settle on a melody, but never on a rhythm, and the melody is repeated erratically...
...government snooping. Hatfield notes that local residents may turn a blind eye to drugs and corruption because of fear of retribution. "Fear becomes the norm - people don't know any other way, and it becomes part of the culture. It takes time to change. I think there's been progress, and it's tragic to see something like this happen...
...Obviously, none of this progress has been enough to stabilize the country. Otherwise, the Taliban wouldn't effectively control 60% of it, as some security analysts now claim. Every day, Karzai and his Western backers are losing ground to the Taliban, as insurgents fill the void created by the failure to bring progress to the rural areas. And as bad as Karzai's government of patronage may be, part of the blame for the lack of progress must also go to the international donors who concentrated on mega projects carried out by foreign corporations and their armies of gun-toting...
...policy year by a Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson's legislative tidal wave of 1965. Obama has pushed through a $787 billion stimulus package and doubled down on the Bush Administration's financial-crisis remedies, which seem to have prevented an economic crash. He is making quiet but substantial progress on education reform; his energy policy will probably be all carrots and no sticks - that is, no cap-and-trade program for carbon emissions - but it will provide a significant boost to green-energy industries. And despite the screechers of summer, he seems likely to pass a universal-health-care...