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...mountains outside the capital. The wiry father of six is recuperating at his half-built concrete-block home on Dili's fringe. A decade of camping out in the bush, not to mention torture and imprisonment, has prematurely aged Mendon?a, leaving him with tropical diseases, a damaged spine, and bones that have not properly healed after they were broken. Though he now works in the Prime Minister's office as a communications officer, Mendon?a can wait half a day for an X ray - then be sent home without even being seen. The country has a heart-breaking child mortality rate...
...spine-tingling voice of Mairéad Ní Mhaonaig allowed the audience to be carried off to serene places and showcased her amazing ability to capture the beauty of a place with mere words. Many of the songs are inspired by rural Ireland and its charms...
...Vocalcity altogether, bringing every single element into the foreground. The vocalists hover in front of the speakers; the textures glisten with superhuman perfection; the percussion bangs harder and the low-end feels like being hugged tightly. Listening to The Present Lover is an hour-long rush up the spine, with eyes wide open...
...bogus earnings reports and balance sheets at companies from Rite Aid to Xerox. In some cases, auditors dealt with corporate brass intent on concealing thievery; WorldCom's ex-CFO, Scott Sullivan, recently pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges, for instance. In other cases, auditors simply lacked spine: again and again, they failed to police the books aggressively for fear of losing the client, along with consulting gigs that brought in higher profits than standard audit work...
...Then that’d throw off the spine and everything,” Brunnig says. “So he got me throwing left handed...