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...lost world, or the ghost stories of an imaginary kingdom. No song on “Ys” will appear on a mix CD and rightfully so: these songs belong together, like the Chronicles of Narnia, to be enjoyed during a blizzard by those who have time to sink into her haunting voice and labyrinthine melodies. —Reviewer Henry M. Cowles can be reached at hmcowles@fas.harvard.edu...
...helpless desperation, a sentiment that gets echoed later on “Gangsta Bop.” Singing over a laid-back parody of every G-Unit beat, Akon starts out with a broken flow, giving the half line “you die quicker” room to sink in before he quietly says “Paramedics drive back slow to this hospital / You get pronounced dead before the hospital.” Whether they’re flamboyantly immoral or wanting redemption, Akon’s characters always find themselves failing. Akon sings from inside a jail...
...when Daily Kos picked out 16 campaigns to strongly support and raise money for, all of which lost. This cycle, bloggers may have been most strongly linked to Lamont, but they actually donated more money to Jim Webb of Virginia. Bloggers also made "macaca" into a scandal that helped sink Webb's opponent, George Allen. The netroots' record is probably too short to be judged definitively, but instead of looking at pure win/loss records, an examination of where the netroots put their emphasis suggests that the online community is either becoming more sophisticated in picking its candidates or is helping...
...course, even the brightest dialogue can sink like rocks without actors who know how to de-liver it. Fortunately, the cast of “You Never Can Tell”—made up almost entirely of freshmen—is very strong. That most of them will be around for the next four years only makes this perform-ance more exciting...
Taking a cue from earlier interventions that singled out one factor or another and failed to make a dent in the problem, the March of Dimes is trying what medical director Dr. Nancy Green calls a "kitchen-sink approach." Much of its focus is on the nuts and bolts of a healthy pregnancy: screening for bacterial infections, watching for signs of domestic violence, discouraging alcohol consumption, encouraging smoking cessation (1 in 4 pregnant women in Kentucky smokes), monitoring weight gain and nutritional intake and, when necessary, giving drugs to prevent preterm labor. Weekly injections of a progesterone-based drug after...