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...along his excellent backing band, the Cardinals, and a shrewd instinct for songs that keep Willie focused. The two originals and nine covers--including Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns to the effortless speak-singing that made his greatest hits so poignant. Best of all is a closing minor-key version of Amazing Grace; Nelson and Adams add an Animals-like organ to this most clichéd of spirituals and take it on a trip to the House of the Rising...
Meanwhile, U.S. officials speak of Iraq's army and police as if they were neutral guarantors of public safety. Iraqis see them for what they are: Shi'ites or Sunnis who are active combatants in Iraq's civil war. Shi'ite police units have kidnapped, tortured and executed thousands of Sunnis since the Samarra bombing. Sunni policemen are often insurgents or sympathizers. The army, while marginally better than the police, is divided along sectarian lines and is largely ineffective. Whole battalions do not show up for combat duties they don't like. It is not possible to build a national...
COLLINS: Let me first say as a disclaimer that I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach...
...People were happy that somebody was...trying to get them involved in the political process,†Alvarenga said of her phone-banking experiences with Spanish-speaking voters in New Mexico, where 29 percent of residents speak Spanish at home, according to a 2000 U.S. Census Bureau report...
...military would risk another p.r. debacle over a low-ranking soldier. "It is not as if this guy is some great commander, whose presence will make a big difference to the American military effort," says the diplomat, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak with the media. "He's not a strategic asset, but he's become a tremendous strategic liability for the [U.S.] military...