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...redeploy more to Afghanistan. "The President's decision to go to war in Iraq has had disastrous consequences for Afghanistan," he said in a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. "We have seen a fierce Taliban offensive, a spike in terrorist attacks, and a narcotrafficking problem spiral out of control...
...band's appeal, though, is an unexpected lack of bitterness. Bad things happen--oh, well, the band says on Float On, its first radio hit in a decade-long career. Isaac Brock's squawked-out vocals and an appearance by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band turn the downward spiral into something arch, melodic and ever...
...Half a Canyon” is terrifying in its drive. “Grounded,” a ballad about a dentist, is still chilling a decade later. “Kennel District” is the best song that second-in-command “Spiral Stairs” Scott Kannberg ever wrote. The list goes on.That’s all well and good, of course, but you can’t praise a deluxe reissue just on the merits of the original—especially when that original is still in print. For the most part...
...streets of Beit Hanoun, an act that incurred condemnation from the European Union and Muslim countries. But an Israeli military spokeswoman made it clear on Wednesday that despite the tragedy, Israel would continue its offensive in Gaza for "as long as rockets land in Israel." In this unending spiral of violence, Palestinians shot off eight more rockets yesterday from Gaza. And now more will surely come...
...rally in August, referred to a South Asian supporter of Webb's as "macaca," a term considered by many to be a racial slur. That helped lead to accusations that Allen had used racial slurs to describe blacks in the 1970's and put his campaign in a downward spiral that eventually put the race into a dead heat. It's been a bizarre campaign: Allen learned in the midst of it that his mother was Jewish, while Webb has become dogged by accusations that's he's a sexist, brought on by a 1979 article in which he called...