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...concert the next evening featuring fellow mainstays of the city's music scene: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, No Fakin' DJs, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete Wylie, Ian Broudie, Shack, the Christians and the Wombats. That motley list tells the real story. Something about Liverpool, a chemical reaction between the irrepressible locals and the diverse influences that have slipped ashore in the city's port, spurs creativity. High culture and low, from staid to avant-garde - it's all come out of Merseyside. But nothing else has ever equaled the Beatles. Ringo and Paul McCartney (who will play there...
...absence of any evidence, this claim proves remarkably easy to make. The New York Times, which broke the story, presents a far less benign version of the story. It insists that many intelligence officials were worried about the legality of the depicted techniques, as well as the reaction that CIA agents’ actions might inspire abroad. This uncertainty prompted the shadowy destruction of the tapes by the CIA’s clandestine service, in a direct subversion of orders from the White House and Congress. If the agency seeks to tout service to country and integrity as its core...
...income Hispanic student from a low-income community, where I speak English 30 percent of the time, I can’t tell the difference between Roy and Matt,” she said at one point, drawing a stunned reaction from the crowd...
...shame this is the standard reaction we have to our problems. And the even greater shame? That such foolishness had to distract us, me included, from the tragic end of a life that held so much promise...
...Political polls usually function as Ouija boards that campaigns and pundits can use to try to predict the outcome of an election. We're more interested in figuring out how voters make the decisions that lead to that outcome. Is it a gut reaction, an emotional response to a candidate who makes them feel proud or angry? Are voters more interested in character traits like leadership and sincerity or in policy positions that match their...