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Although I’m happy that Europe begins this year with a new, modern currency, the United States of America must resist the increasing pressure to futurize its bills. More open spaces and larger portraits are the first step down the wrong road. Modern bills may seem trendy now, but take another look at Washington, Lincoln or Hamilton and then see if you’re willing to give up history and sophistication...
...commit more sexual assaults. Instead, psychologists have found a correlation between peer support of ruse or coercion and violence against women. Think about it: If your friends talk about women in demeaning ways—as objects just to use—it is going to be hard to resist that attitude yourself. Therefore, while final clubs and athletic teams provide structured settings in which such heartless social conditioning can occur, it also happens at small social parties, in dorm rooms or clubs...
...STROKES Is This It (RCA) It's impossible to listen to this album without noting all the '70s punk/pop acts being ripped off left and right. It's also impossible to resist nodding your head and singing along. The Strokes may be derivative--of the Velvet Underground, Television, David Bowie and many others--but to borrow a phrase from Courtney Love, they fake it so real, they are beyond fake. Is This It is full of great guitar hooks, dry pop lyrics ("Alone we stand, together we fall apart/I think I'll be all right") and old-fashioned rock...
...Strokes Is This It (RCA) It's impossible to listen to this album without noting all the '70s punk/pop acts being ripped off left and right. It's also impossible to resist nodding your head and singing along. The Strokes may be derivative - of the Velvet Underground, Television, David Bowie and many others - but to borrow a phrase from Courtney Love, they fake it so real, they are beyond fake. Is This It is full of great guitar hooks, dry pop lyrics ("Alone we stand, together we fall apart /I think I'll be all right") and old-fashioned rock...
...still small, but it attracts sympathizers disillusioned by the failure of everything else. Most Palestinians do not buy Hamas' call to exterminate Israel or make their longed-for state a strict Islamic one. But most now embrace its suicide bombings as the only means they have left to resist an unremitting occupation. The question is whether that newfound popularity is just a flirtation or a permanent change of heart...