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...Scattered among the righteously aggrieved are solo protesters whose vigils seem downright quixotic. Ramdev Kumar, for instance, claims that his wife left him for someone else and his brother usurped his house. For the past two years, Kumar has been agitating for some sort of recompense. "I want the government to do something," he says simply...
...down a rap verse in the middle. Lovebug floats on a gentle acoustic guitar line into a sweetly delivered chorus ("Now I'm speechless/ Over the edge I'm just breathless/ I never thought that I'd catch this love bug again") before exploding into a Boston-style guitar solo that they actually earn. The playing on these songs is big and precise, the singing joyful. None of it will surprise anyone with more than a dozen albums in their record collection, but then none of it will embarrass them either...
...played the tournament without its best player, Abby Wambach, shocked Brazil in the gold medal game, a 1-0 overtime thriller. Brazil had spanked the U.S., 4-0, at last year's World Cup, and then the U.S. turned into team turmoil after it, when benched American goalie Hope Solo teed off on their coach. Now, under new coach Pia Sundhage, they're the Olympic champs. And Solo, a polarizing force a year ago, is a star after shutting out Brazil. "Whatever I said last year, I said everything under emotions," Solo explained after the game. "I feel great...
...Dukes' selection of passages from the three novels. McGovern, one of the foremost players of Beckett, mines every vein of showmanship in the works. Riding a bicycle while holding crutches, or squatting nearly naked and spitting out whole paragraphs in a long breath, he's a veritable Cirque de Solo. Even on his deathbed (in the Malone Dies section), the McGovern-Beckett character finds much to laugh about, though his smile is a rictus...
...achieve that succulent victory, Step Brothers says, is by singing the Andrea Bocelli Por Ti Volare, accompanied by a drum solo. Even a grump has to admit it. That made me laugh...