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Last Thursday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the existing ban on the photography of U.S. military caskets returning from Iraq would be altered to allow news coverage of the caskets with express consent from the families of the deceased. This ban had been in place for 18 years, enacted under the administration of President George H. W. Bush during the Gulf War. As the regulation stood, all photography of caskets of war dead was prohibited. Under these new provisions, caskets can be photographed only with the consent of the soldiers’ families. While this is a promising...
...Robert Pollard is not your average prolific songwriter. Today, many artists are lauded for their fecundity if they’re in more than one band or release more than one album in a year. Pollard, though, makes the activity of people like Ryan Adams and Dan Bejar look part-time. Having released his last solo album on January 20th, Pollard, the former leader of 90s legends Guided By Voices, is back just a month later with “The Planets are Blasted,” the second album by his band Boston Spaceships.Pollard’s habit...
...Howard Cosell informed the nation during the 1977 World Series. “The Bronx is burning.” His signature stilted, terse cadence and morbid turn of phrase succinctly vocalized a somber resignation that threatened to stifle the once vibrant borough. Ravaged by Robert Moses’ ambitious urban planning, the Bronx—newly equipped with a gleaming expressway—literally crumbled throughout the 70s and 80s, forcing thousands of residents to seek shelter in tenements and public housing. As desperate landlords set fire to their property, hoping to reap the benefits of insurance policies, blackened...
...after Obama was elected, the White House argues that the pork-laden bill - which increases federal spending across a range of Cabinet departments by 8% - is part of the prior Administration's legacy. "What may be next week's bill is last year's legislation," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. (See the top 10 outrageous earmarks...
...dire as their situation has been, the brokers of the African Banking Corp. and their peers are hoping better times are just around the corner. A new power-sharing agreement between the opposition and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Party could see progress on restarting Zimbabwe's moribund economy. And it's rumored that Gono's job may be on the chopping block. Foreign investors are eager to dive back into the fray, sensing major opportunities in an economy that will have to be rebuilt almost from scratch. One client of African Banking Corp. is ready to multiply...