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Some of Deadwood's strongest insights are about the symbiosis between a racist society and the groups it despises. Take the camp's Chinese cook Wu (Keone Young), who is the butt of slant-eye jokes but has an indispensable role. When someone wants to keep a murder quiet, the corpse is fed--despite the cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn...
...bridges are unusual for having asymmetrical flourishes, canted curves that slant against the water or--as in his first American span, a $23.5 million glass-and-steel footbridge in Redding, Calif., that opens next month--a long, slender tail fin at one end that operates as a sundial. "Asymmetry allows you to explore," he says. "You can emphasize things having to do with the position of the city against the water or the curvature of the stream...
...deliciously raucous melding of ’60s soul-channeling and furious garage punk. And the soon to be released Pawn Shoppe Heart, already available in the U.K. and on iTunes, offers more of the same addictive, bombastic energy, only cleaner and with slightly less of a blues slant. This second album marks their major label debut—they’ve switched from the indie Sympathy for the Record Industry to Sire, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers—and it shows in the quality of recording...
...report, Lord Hutton, the Establishment judge whom Blair chose to head the probe, chided Kelly for leaking to reporters his disquiet that the government had oversold evidence of Iraq's WMD, giving a different slant to his bosses and parliamentary committees and then despairing as he realized his dissembling would be revealed. But Hutton saved most of his fire for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan for making "very grave" and "unfounded" charges in a live radio broadcast last May after he met Kelly. Gilligan reported that the government "probably knew" that a central claim in its dossier on Iraqi WMD--that...
...posting a majority of responses that say it's no big deal. Most Americans are outraged. TIME, your liberal slant fools no one. Ever wonder why your circ is dropping? Peter Zoeller Wilmington...