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...herself on the wrong side of the not-so-wonderful Wizard. He tricks her into using her spells to enslave the animals of the realm. She's turned into a pariah--even Glinda abandons her--and, as if that weren't enough, some farm girl's house has fallen smack on her sister...
...their leisure time outdoors and not in smoke-filled gambling parlors. But New South Wales is reputed to be home to 10% of the world's poker machines. Many of them seem to be located in Sydney's sprawling Star City casino complex, tel: (61-2) 9777 9000, smack on Darling Harbour and one of the city's inescapable landmarks. With its 145,000-square-meter main gaming room awash in color, noise and distraction, this populist fun palace is an apt approximation of what entertainment venues would look like if the Roman Empire still existed. When you're tired...
Capitalizing on a fellow artist’s death has been, alongside shooting smack and selling out to the Man, one of the most popular hobbies of musicians in the past decade. Courtney Love got the ball rolling in 1994; after ex-husband Kurt Cobain, in the words of our Fearless Leader, suicided himself, Love successfully mourned her way to unjustified record deals, piles of prescription drugs and “lots and lots and lots of money” after agreeing to release a Nirvana greatest hits collection...
...timetable is tight. Washington needs to get capable Iraqi security forces up and running before the insurgents score enough hits to discourage the U.S. commitment and frighten off Iraqi recruits. And Bush needs to find adequate replacements before tired G.I.s are due to rotate home next spring, smack in the middle of his re-election campaign. Yet rushing ill-trained, ill-equipped Iraqis into the breach could create new problems. Senator Joseph Biden, senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says the Administration's "stampede" to put locals in charge of pacifying Iraq "runs the risk of having...
...that that are real as much to that community as any other, no matter how controversial. To have such witness dismissed through the cavalier suggestion that ultimately, the SAA would have created a more powerful piece of theatre had it stuck to dance, is patronising, limiting and could well smack of both cultural imperialism and racism (though after corresponding with Schraa, I do not believe this was her intention...