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...theaters had been heavily reinforced. The results--the destruction of the Spanish fleets in Manila Bay and, two months later, off Santiago, Cuba--were decisive. Spain had been reduced to the rank of a minor power, and the deeply troubled lands of Cuba and the Philippines came under U.S. sway...
...Niger Delta crisis has illustrated. While politicians seem poised to tackle those ignominies, they have been preoccupied with personal aspirations, notably President Olesegun Obasanjo's efforts to change the constitution and run for a third term. Until government institutions embrace a truly democratic culture, the prevailing mayhem will hold sway. Jide Martyns Okeke Bradford, England...
Devils, Ahmad thinks. These devils seek to take away my God. All day long, at Central High School, girls sway and sneer and expose their soft bodies and alluring hair. Their bare bellies, adorned with shining navel studs and low-down purple tattoos, ask, What else is there to see? Boys strut and saunter along and look dead-eyed, indicating with their edgy killer gestures and careless scornful laughs that this world is all there is - a noisy varnished hall lined with metal lockers and having at its end a blank wall desecrated by graffiti and roller-painted over...
...made in the White House. And this White House, like the two that preceded it, has long made it clear that Treasury will primarily execute what the West Wing decides. Someone like Robert Rubin, who became Treasury chief after running economic policy for Bill Clinton, could still hold sway over that process because he was smart, had already designed the game plan during his stint in the White House and had an unmatched track record on Wall Street. But this White House is a closed loop; if you aren't there, you don't matter very much...
...could write the songs. Before Dylan, the decades-long Tin Pan Alley division of labor between singer and songwriter held sway. Dylan's success (and the Beatles') convinced every vocalist he was a poet, and every tunesmith an Elvis. Except in Nashville, the profession of songwriter disappeared. Whatever the lasting results - a lot of ragged vocals, I'd say, and tons of bad songs by singers who should never have picked up a pencil - but the singer-songwriter has been the m.o. ever since...