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...like a short story; several unwind without choruses. On Sinaloa Cowboys, Springsteen sings of two illegal immigrants who fall in with drug traffickers (he manages to rhyme "ravine" and "methamphetamine"). His sound--somewhere between Springsteen's stark Nebraska album and his serenely wrenching hit Streets of Philadelphia--is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, harmonica and keyboard. In the title song, Springsteen summons the spirit of the hero of John Steinbeck's famous novel about migrant workers, The Grapes of Wrath: "I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light/ With the ghost of old Tom Joad." This...
Although Shell's chief executive did send a personal to Nigeria's leaders to spare Sao-Wiwa's life, it was clearly a token gesture. As long as companies such as Shell continue to support the military junta by mining Nigerian oil, and, as long as institutions like Harvard invest in Shell, human rights abuses such as Saro-Wiwa's unjust execution will continue...
...suffers the same fate in Anne Tyler's Accidental Tourist, Ives eventually finds quiet hope not in the arms of a quixotic woman but, less fashionably, through his faith in God. A faith that turns his indifference into compassion rather than hate. Never didactic, Mr. Ives' Christmas is a spare, moving meditation on the spiritual life...
...Ghost of Tom Joad," a new collection of songs about desperate lives along the Mexican border. "This album has the power to haunt," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Springsteen's sound, which is somewhere between his stark 'Nebraska' album and his serenely wrenching hit 'Streets of Philadelphia, is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and a keyboard...
James and the rest of Cambridge's more than 13,000-member elderly population now have no need to worry about what to do in their spare time...