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...choice of cover songs. The ones here, like Curtis' I Fought the Law, tiptoe toward depression, then poke it in the ribs. The broody lyrics of Nick Lowe's Battlefield ("All around there is desolation/ And scenes of devastation/ Of a love being torn apart") get swallowed and spat out by the jouncy banjo, the skiffle beat and the Jordanaires-style backing vocals, till the whole thing sounds like a minstrel show staged by Grand Ole Opry; everyone has a high time playing at misery...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton made a gesture to calm the public spat between the FBI and the White House, saying the FBI was right to limit dissemination of a warning last year that China might try to funnel money into the U.S. election campaign. Then he took a swipe at FBI Director Louis Freeh, noting that he?s troubled by the notion that the Justice Department decides what the President needs to know, since he therefore has no idea what he has not been told. "They have a dual obligation to share with the White House and with the State...
...tens of thousands of Lincoln customers and that he orchestrated a series of sham real estate transactions to inflate Lincoln's profits. Packed off to prison in handcuffs and chains under the glare of TV cameras, he became one of the most reviled white-collar criminals in America, the spat-upon face of a crisis that cost nearly $500 billion...
...Broadway musical resoundingly into the '90s. The Fugees proved you can sell millions of rap records without gangsta's toxicity, while Tiger Woods broadened golf's horizons simply by showing up. And Jerry Seinfeld stayed funny, defying sitcomic entropy. So here's to the men and women who spat in mediocrity's eye and made us believe in forward progress--the best...
...accused him of breaking his word even as evidence mounts that Bosnia remains unstable, putting Americans in jeopardy. After the recent Muslim and Serb clashes, U.S. troops were forced to disband a Muslim army unit and confiscate thousands of illegally hoarded weapons, while Muslims protesting the seizure threw rocks, spat at the soldiers, and lay in front of the trucks taking away their arms...