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...conveyed emotions with an abstraction summed up in a line from Losing My Religion: "Oh no I've said too much." He chose his words carefully, out of a sense of privacy and poetic economy, and trusted that the tremors in his voice would convey the feelings. But the success of 1992's Everybody Hurts led to some bad habits; soon after, his every wounded thought became explicit and Stipe became kind of a drag. So when Hollow Man's melancholy keyboard and opening lyric--"I've been lost inside my head/echoes fall off me"--drip into the air, there...
Spicy chicken and wildly extravagant living are what Louisiana native Al Copeland will be best remembered for. The founder of the fast-food chain Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits, Copeland stumbled at first with a bland recipe but found success in 1972 when he used local Cajun flavors. His business ideas didn't always produce results, particularly in the case of his 1989 purchase of Church's Chicken, which ended in bankruptcy. Yet whatever his success, he wasn't shy about public displays of wealth, indulging in over-the-top Christmas-light displays and Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces--though he generated less...
...Schultz, keeping in touch with the past is key to future success. Remembering who you are is the first step to becoming who you should be. Sometimes in the morning, he goes down to the original Starbucks at Pike Place. Before the store opens, Schultz lets himself in. He puts his hands on the wooden counter and thinks about how he felt at the beginning, what it was he was trying to do. Over the past few months, Schultz has also taken to passing around a memo he wrote in 1986. The letterhead says Il Giornale--Starbucks would come later...
...Such displays of outrage have fueled the G.O.P. nominee's political success, earning him a reputation as a reformer with higher nationwide favorability ratings than either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. It's because of that reputation, which particularly appeals to independent voters, that Democrats have started targeting McCain's reformer cred...
...offensive by the Iraqi government in southern Iraq was simply "enforcement of the law in Basra." It was not directed against the Mahdi Army, the militia run by radical Shi'ite cleric (and political powerhouse) Moqtada al-Sadr, whose seven-month-old cease-fire has been key to the success of the American surge. The U.S. maintained that line today even though it was clear that the "criminal gangs" battling government forces in Basra were identifiable as elements of the Mahdi Army. In a military briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner continued...