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...anti-oasis in the North Sea.Until recently, Scotland has had little to speak of save for bands like The Vaselines and Travis, great whisky, and the Loch Ness Monster. Now, though, Glasvegas, who hail from Glasgow, are set to change all of that. A band truly capable of putting Scotch rock on the map, all the bagpipes in the world performing “Amazing Grace” couldn’t outplay them. The four-piece group employs the kind of sweeping, heavily produced guitar lines that have made other Commonwealth bands like Muse and Bloc Party famous while...
ZIMA production halted. Teenage girls heading straight to scotch...
...that is about greed," steered by the right-wing "chiselers" on the Hill and inside gleaming K Street offices, Frank writes. He offers one damning anecdote after another, like the tale of an especially effective and wealthy lobbyist that made him "want to curl up with a bottle of scotch, set the Sex Pistols record on infinite repeat, and forget this city of bought men." The only solution: "wholesale renovation of the federal apparatus." Liberals will nod approvingly and smirk the whole way through, while conservatives will grind their teeth to the gums. Which is probably what the author...
...strategy had its critics, who said faster action could have headed off a major refugee crisis. But his reputation as a soldier's general survived. He personified the old-fashioned, scotch-in-the-officers'-club army culture that India inherited from the British. Manekshaw will be remembered, according to retired Lieut. Colonel Anil Bhat, as "a person who made India stand tall...
...most seemed drawn by visions of an Upper East Side future, a seat on a museum board, and the self-satisfaction—familiar to everyone who has attended one of the first Friday drink nights at the MFA—that comes with downing a glass of scotch next to a priceless masterpiece of Renaissance art. Stephanie Kacoyanis crooned “La Vie en Rose” as women sporting black elbow-length gloves minced through the crowd. It was a chance to unwrap the dry-cleaning plastic from chic dresses. One fashionista wore a fine off-white...