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...recent session, the kids eagerly discussed how to defeat their current opponents—a dragon and an ether snake. “The daylight spell you guys have just used is sucked up by the viper and it has weakened it...What are you going to do now?” Maene asked one of the players, Giulio Marchetti...
...Manufacturers and unions alike are howling for protection. Adrià Serra, president of Spain's textile trade group Consejo Intertextil Espa?ol, says unless urgent action is taken, the import flood will spell "a disaster." Mario Maselli, owner of Emmetex, a textile producer in the Italian town of Prato, complains that "this is ever more a market where one side battles with two hands and the other has one hand tied behind its back...
...December 2002, I had a spell of the Ari Agitation. We were returning on Air Force One from St. Petersburg, Russia. I was trying to get Fleischer to explain how the President's hope that Saddam Hussein would peaceably disarm was consistent with his earlier view that the Iraqi leader should be removed from office. Fleischer insisted that Bush's policy was "regime change," a term the Administration used to muddle the less diplomatic but real goal of removing Saddam from office. It was a familiar dodge, but a little clarity from the plainspoken Texan's administration about going...
...with distinctive pronunciation. Keren Ann Nolita The previous two albums by this Indonesian-Dutch-Israeli-Russian (who splits her time between Paris and New York City, naturally) were such delicate exercises in mood that they seemed to avoid hard consonants, as if the tiniest plosive could break the spell. Here Ann gets a bit more sonically aggressive (sometimes the drummer uses sticks!) but vocal minimalism remains her strength, so she whispers along with her acoustic guitar, barely singing songs about being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic, too. M.I.A. Arular The child...
Even more daunting to broadcasters is uncertainty. They say they have no idea what is acceptable now, and the FCC won't spell it out. Contrary to popular belief--and George Carlin's seven-words-you-can't-say-on-TV routine--there are no stone tablets to clarify that thou shalt never utter this word or show that body part. The FCC will rule on indecency after the fact--sometimes twice. At the 2003 Golden Globes, singer Bono of U2 called his band's winning Best Original Song from a Film "f___ing brilliant." In October...