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...Western politics in Latin America: "White Squad" killers, interrogators, mercenaries, the seedy and deadly emissaries of order. The paintings were huge, some of the figures nearly twice lifesize. Tacked unstretched to the wall like tapestries or (as Golub prefers to think of them) like skins, they resembled, in their stark silhouetting and red earth-colored backgrounds, Roman frescoes whose surfaces had been corrupted by the blackening breath of the late 20th century...
...long standing: it pays to buy the single versions of the album's hits because stashed away on the flip sides are entirely new songs unavailable elsewhere. Shut Out the Light, recorded for Born in the U.S.A. but weeded out in the final editing process, is simple, stark, folk-inflected and filled with a kind of cold-sweat compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself...
...final relay of the day was in stark contrast to the first, however. Timing difficulties and a controversial call by the officials handed Syracuse a win in the 400m medley relay, which gave the hosts an early lead and sparked a Harvard comeback incentive...
...given a label of their own--he calls it "investigational." Whether or not and to what degree these oprations would be underwritten, and how they would receive priority in various scenarios would be determined by a national commission including health professional, policymakers and consumers. This suggestion stands in stark contrast to calls to leave such decisions strictly under the aegis of doctors...
...efforts to save Bill Schroeder are in stark contrast to a story she reported last spring on families whose religious beliefs led them to refuse medical care for their dying children. To follow every step of Schroeder's progress, Dolan, along with TIME'S Teresa Barker, has been almost as closely tethered to the Humana press center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering...