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STEVE EARLE has never been the sort of country singer who gigs at Republican conventions. He has done time for drug possession, and his music is too rough around the edges to slip into mainstream radio. But now some Nashville conservatives have gone from Earle indifference to rage over his song John Walker's Blues, which is on his upcoming album, Jerusalem. Written from the perspective of the so-called American Taliban, the lyrics include "We came to fight the jihad/ And our hearts were pure and strong." Earle said he doesn't "condone what [Walker] did." But a Nashville...
...operation is called arthroscopic knee surgery, and more than a quarter-million Americans were getting it each year. Doctors would make three small incisions in the knee, insert a tiny scope, flush debris out of the area with water and sometimes shave away rough surfaces around the joint to help the tendons and ligaments glide more smoothly. Part of the appeal of the surgery was that it was minimally invasive; most patients walked away requiring little or no recovery time...
...before TV, sportswriters had more power. When they rouged up a rough image or drew a mustache on a hero, the picture stuck. Williams didn't care to smile for the camera, so the writers painted him as a surly cur. They didn't like him in 1942, when he won the Triple Crown (batting average, home runs, runs batted in) but lost the MVP to the inferior Joe Gordon...
...billion figure is only a rough estimate, and a full-blown public campaign is only one of the options on the table, Development Office spokesperson Andy Tiedemann said...
...make it a music video? A Bach fugue over Tiger hitting those miraculous irons from the deep rough onto the greens at Bethpage Black. Nah. The aliens will think we did it all with computer graphics...