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...band hails from rainy Glasgow, but the blueprint for this album is Neil Young's 1972 Harvest, that guide to sun-drenched California soul-searching with Heart of Gold on it. Fortunately, layers of spaced-out guitars and the occasional well-placed synthesizer track remind us that this is a contemporary U.K. band, so none of the songs sound retro or slavishly derivative. There's a college audience thirsty for modern variations on the soft sound Young pioneered, and these lads, along with fellow Scots Belle and Sebastian, have the songwriting talent to deliver the goods...
...messy. The austere space communicates antifashion; there is nothing cool about the spartanic sloppiness. So why are hordes of ultra-trendy young girls lining up behind a velvet rope, eager to enter a shop whose untidy stacks of faded T shirts and cubbyholes stuffed with dark denim jeans remind one of little more than a misplaced garage sale? Here's a clue: amid the jumble of voices filling the shop as the girls paw excitedly through the clothes, one word can be heard again and again: kawaii...
...great entertainment. The frontrunner, Michael Portillo, has shed his reputation as a right-wing rabble-rouser to become the soothing, centrist voice of Tory moderation. "Our party has to appeal to the whole range of people who live in Britain," Portillo says, a commitment to tolerance that may also remind party members of his admission of a homosexual past. Last week one top Tory said that should disqualify Portillo from the head job. Another leadership hopeful, the delightfully graceless Ann Widdecombe, declared she would never serve under Portillo and his "little band of backbiters...
...pill-taking regimen. The gay press is filled with delightful ads for HIV medications that depict healthy, happy-looking guys who seem too busy racing the Iditarod to be sick. Last month the fda actually had to order drugmakers to tone down the upbeat ads for HIV drugs--and remind readers that, oh, yeah, HIV is lethal...
...family. Detainees often say to me, 'You are one of us. Why don't you let us go?' I tell them I am just doing a job. But it gives me a bit of insight, a different degree of compassion." If he forgets, his father is quick to remind him. When he visits his father's home in Tucson, Victor Sr. sometimes yells out the front window, "Viene la Migra!" (the ins is coming...