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Weather Report were the most talented practitioners of fusion, a style often derided primarily because it shades into “smooth jazz,” widely acknowledged as the most soulless genre in the history of music. Unfortunately, many of the tracks on this set veer uncomfortably close to the F-word, such as “Cannon Ball” and their oft-copied version of “Birdland...
...concern to be taken seriously. Men who wear unattractive baseball caps make me uncomfortable, but I've gotten used to the world not being aesthetically designed to my taste. No, the issue is very specifically the niqab, and the obstacle it poses to human interaction and smooth integration. What does seem obvious is that the assimilation of British Muslims is a troubled process, and that intrusive squares of cloth should remain an open, but peripheral debate...
...come to church precisely because you were of this world, not apart from it; rich, poor, sinner, saved, you needed to embrace Christ precisely because you had sins to wash away - because you were human and needed an ally in your difficult journey, to make the peaks and valleys smooth and render all those crooked paths straight...
Hard-shell bags offer additional protection to fragile belongings and any containers of liquids that you were forced to check. Japanese designer Hideo Wakamatsu's brightly colored scratch-resistant trolley cases ($200-$300) feature smooth magnetic locks and four soft, silent polyurethane wheels recessed into the frame to avoid damage in transit. For travelers with nothing to hide, his Skeleton trolley ($400) is made of superstrong, see-through thermoplastic framed in anodized aluminum...
...victims of priestly sexual offenders. But, as the film observes, the church has not openly addressed the problem they present in any substantial way. And we are left angrily wondering whether there is anything, beyond payoffs, that can be done about this situation. You need only watch the smooth and civilized O?Grady, cracking little jokes as he fences with a lawyer, to understand that a few sessions with a shrink are not going to deliver anyone from the evil he represents. Included herein are the ritual appeals for an end to the celibate priesthood, but that?s not going...