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...with shoulder-length hair, for questioning. And the bomb site is now being cleared in advance of a traditional ritual prescribed to spiritually cleanse the island after a mortal enemy attack. Priests plan to slaughter a deer, a bull, a cow, a goat, a turtle, a pig, a white swan, a red swan and a black dog with a black tongue, and each household on the island will erect bamboo poles laden with fruits, flowers and palm fronds. Rituals may vanquish ghosts, but they aren't known to scare off terrorists...
...Stray Cats” and “Girls Singing Night.” “Stray Cats” consists of some of her more standard concert fare, in terms of both music and in-between-the-songs antics. The disc begins with “Swan Dive,” an energetic and intense song. Upon her first strum of the guitar, however she injects a bit of humor, saying, “I don’t know why the fuck I play acoustic guitars. I hate that acoustic guitar sound...
...December summit in Copenhagen. Though out of government, the LPF could still be a spoiler. Angry at their ejection, party leaders threw sand in the gears of parliament last week by declaring the entire state budget open for debate. That dissonant note may end up as the party's swan song, though. A recent poll found that if elections were held now, the LPF would retain only four of the 26 places it won in the 150-seat lower house of parliament. But the party's exit from government leaves undelivered the promise for real change that Pim Fortuyn offered...
...ending with pears and apples. Brookshaw wanted to promote "the highest flavored fruit, and from the earliest to the latest period possible." But by the standards of today's supermarket, most varieties in his book did not pass the test. When was the last time you saw a Winter Swan's Egg Pear at the store or had the juice from a Grimwood's Royal Charlotte Peach dribble down your chin? These fruits weren't commercially viable in the 1800s, and those that have survived are even less so today. "Quite a number of varieties were grown in walled gardens...
...everyone is convinced that this year—or any year in the foreseeable future—will be early decision’s swan song. Many admissions officials at influential colleges are still devoted to early decision, and even if a consensus to abolish early decision did exist, a single collective action would potentially be treated as an antitrust violation. “It’s been too helpful to too many schools,” says Jacques Steinberg, author of The Gatekeepers, a new book on Wesleyan’s admissions process...