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...double album, the sum of Vaughan’s first Montreux performance and his triumphant return in 1985, represents the first comprehensive collection of those celebrated live performances. Needless to say, the compilation is simply glorious. Vaughan was as adept at funneling rip-roaring blues through his guitar as he was pulling out smouldering riffs from its strings, and the first Montreux outing provides a brilliant sampler of his stunning—if then still raw—talent...
...funny to those with personalities such that they would consider spending hundreds of hours learning about such obscurities. But a few pieces of truly context-free comic brilliance managed to shine through. The first was a running comparison of professors’ ratings on HotOrNot.com, and another was a rip-off of Saturday Night Lives’s “Celebrity Jeopardy” with well-known professors in puppet form playing the brain-dead celebrity roles...
...world intends to rid itself of that movement and the lethal vision it promotes, the U.S. will have to rip out its heart--by hunting down the Taliban in the caves and redoubts of southern Afghanistan, where the Pentagon believes Osama bin Laden and the Taliban's leaders have taken refuge. Even if they continue to roll back the Taliban in the north, the Afghan rebels won't be of much help in Kandahar. "The Northern Alliance can never control the whole of Afghanistan," says Dostum's aide. "We have no following in the south." That means only...
...They’re not going to rip up the buildings now in the middle of the term so we can get the Discovery Channel,” said council member and chair of the Student Affairs Committee Rohit Chopra...
...only thing we had in our lives was the acoustic stuff, but that changed over time.” In live performances Dispatch not only know how to keep the crowd pumped with rip-roaring guitar tricks and drum beats, but also feature a brand of play that keeps all of them in the foreground...