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...Robot’s emphasis on style over substance produces a handful of nearly unlistenable missteps, sunk by empty lyrics and flat, repetitive song structures. But the high points of the 39-minute spree suggest that if these professional impostors learn a few new tricks, their expiration date might be extended a while longer yet. —Simon W. Vozick-Levinson
...trying to derail the process of rebuilding our country. Many Iraqis believe Baathists and Saddam Hussein loyalists were responsible. These criminals were created by Saddam. He picked them from Iraq's worst social class and gave them money, high positions in his regime and weaponry. Now they have sunk back to their worthless status, and they want to make life in Iraq miserable for all. We will not let them. Ahmad H. Kasim Mosul...
...long been regarded as one of the world's most dangerous occupations. Some 24,000 fishermen around the world die each year, and millions more are injured in weather- and equipment-related accidents. In the Baltic, though, there is another hazard - about 35,000 tons of chemical munitions sunk by the Russians near Bornholm and the Swedish island of Gotland, west of Latvia, in the late 1940s. More - sealed on German warships - was sunk by Britain and the U.S. in the deep waters of the Skagerrak, an arm of the North Sea, and in the Norwegian Sea. Over time, some...
...time to reach for the sunglasses, but Asia's economic storm is starting to clear. A brighter outlook for the remainder of 2003 propelled stock markets in South Korea and Hong Kong to 13-month highs last week; even Japan's moribund Nikkei index, which sunk to a 20-year low in late April, has since rebounded 35%. Meanwhile, retailers and real estate brokers in down-and-out Hong Kong say buyers seem to be slowly returning. "The general mood here has improved in the past two weeks," says Hong Kong Financial Secretary Henry Tang, predicting the economy will...
...rector, Rev. David Jones, stood silently before the screen as the news came that Robinson had won confirmation with the support of 62 of 107 bishops.?He said nothing. Slowly, as the news sunk in, Jones wiped tears away that welled in his eyes. He later told reporters he had spoken to Robinson the night before the vote. "He said," recalled Jones, "'I feel like a little man in a little boat on a big ocean, but I know who is in the boat with...