Word: skittishness
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...International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), a 4,500-man contingent of mostly European peacekeepers. They have brought relative calm to the capital, but a recent series of attacks against ISAF itself, including the attempted rocketing of a barracks full of sleeping soldiers last week, have made locals skittish again. "We're seeing a pattern to destabilize the city, to cause unrest, and to cause people to lose faith in the interim administration and maybe even ISAF," says spokesman Flight Lieutenant Tony Marshall. "We're not going to be swayed by this, but we are vulnerable...
...Monday, Feb. 18. Unlike the plugged-in sounds of Soul Coughing, Doughty’s solo gig will be acoustic, though it should include some stripped-down versions of songs Soul Coughing fans will recognize. He’ll also be playing off of his unreleased solo album Skittish, and if we’re lucky, he might surprise us with some new material. “It’s very difficult for me to break out a song for the first time, it’s very stressful,” he confesses...
...words, “When you just strip it down to the basic chord and the melodies, there’s kind of a haunting quality that I really like.” He has gone acoustic for his upcoming tour, as he did on Skittish. “It’s how I started out,” he reminds us, “it’s what I’ve been doing longer than I’ve been doing anything else. Once I wasn’t in a band any more...
...that’s just like, “Hi, I dig you, do you dig me? Let’s go get drunk, I’m really sad.” Doughty covered Blige’s 1992 hit “Real Love” on Skittish, and it’s a likely choice for his tour...
...Boston came to the attention of church officials there in sex-abuse allegations--a potentially massive pool of victims who could bring suits. "The financial impact of these cases is severe," says Mark Chopko, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Chopko points to fragile relationships with skittish insurers and to a Santa Fe, N.M., diocese that was nearly bankrupted in the early 1990s by sex-abuse suits there...