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...College Dropout shows that Kanye is on an altogether different tip. His sped-up divas may have been nabbed from soul music, but they’re really kindred spirits with early rave anthems, whose chipmunk voices were pilfered and used for the same naively uplifting ends. (Charmingly ironic is the vocoder-led house number that bursts out of “The New Workout Plan”—work that drum machine, Kanye.) In contrast to the “faded photograph” echo in much of hip-hop’s sampled melodies, Kanye...
Bernakevitch carried the puck into RPI’s zone along the right boards before running headlong into the Engineers’ defense. Adroitly sliding the puck between the first defender’s legs, Bernakevitch sped towards the net to avoid a second before quickly blasting a shot just over the top of the left corner in what proved to be the Crimson’s last best chance...
...based the argument for war on the absolute certainty that Iraq had such weapons. The White House is now backing away from those claims; Blair has not. He outsmarted the executioner, but still has some explaining to do. Give him time. For now, Blair was grinning widely as he sped away unscathed from his near-death experience. He could see plenty of roadkill in the rearview mirror. The Conservatives' new leader, Michael Howard, had been widely praised for restoring some discipline and purpose to a party that hasn't managed to mount an effective opposition since Labour came to power...
...motorcade passed through, traffic on the street was blocked off. But the plotters had thought of that. They had parked their two explosives-packed vehicles in advance at separate gas stations on Jhanda Chichi Road in Rawalpindi. As the convoy carrying Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf approached, the suicide drivers sped into action. A guard stepped into the path of one vehicle, costing him his life and causing the assassin's van to crash into a car in the motorcade and instantly explode; within a minute, the other vehicle blew up just yards from Musharraf's armored Mercedes, shattering its windshield...
Schermerhorn sped away, the humvee's flat tire flapping crazily. Whiteside climbed out of the turret and began trying to resuscitate the lieutenant. Colgan made a gurgling sound. He has a wife and kids, Whiteside thought. We've got to keep him alive. Buxton grabbed the radio handset. "This is Tomb Raider 6-3 Delta," he said. "Lieutenant Colgan is down...