Word: sweets
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...Close My Eyes” gives these songs the quality of sinister lullabies. Occasionally, the album can teeter on repetition. “You Want the Candy” and “Blitzed” open with nearly identical riffs, and, though sweet in sound, the Raveonettes’ lyrics have never been all that deep or inspired. Overall, however, the material is good enough to be recycled. Having become masters at musical appropriation, it is perhaps only fitting that, after finding something that works and works well, the Raveonettes have now begun to copy themselves...
...Thursday's demonstration follows a week of orchestrated outrage, during which, among other things, no fewer than ten McDonald's outlets were vandalized, and a local supermaket chain was targeted because of its Slovenian owners (Slovenia currently holds the rotating EU presidency), as were Albanian sweet shops and bakeries. (Albania has consistently supported the secession struggle of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.) More than 80 people were injured in those protests, most of them police...
...discuss the use of poker as a tool for strategic thinking in fields from economics to public policy. As a fairly young organization, GPSTS is pretty accomplished. HLS student and operations officer of GPSTS, Andrew Woods, boasted of a few of GPSTS’s recent milestones, including a sweet Harvard victory over Yale at GPSTS’s first interscholastic team poker tournament this past November. And poker isn’t just for grads: just this past weekend, Brian M. Wan ’08 played in the PokerStars Sunday Million, an online tournament that guarantees a first...
...manager was living safely in Ankawa, a Christian town in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, until April 2006, when he began chatting over the Internet with Miriam Eliasan, an 18-year-old Christian girl from Dora, one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. After six months of trading photographs and sweet nothings, he decided that he could no longer live without her. So he drove all the way to Baghdad, where, after getting caught in a firefight between militants and American soldiers, he met Miriam for the first time in the back of a church. Not long afterwards he moved Miriam...
Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13. The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif., classroom full of students. Police have charged a sweet-faced boy called Brandon McInerney, 14, with first-degree murder and with a hate crime. According to the Los Angeles Times and KTLA, McInerney and some other boys accosted King about his sexuality on Feb. 11. Students apparently often taunted King, who didn't even have a safe home to return...