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...lifestyle has its drawbacks. “Guitarist” Noodle learns this hard fact in “El Mañana,” which starts out with an idyllic scene as she dangles her feet lazily from the island, but quickly turns violent as helicopters swoop down out of nowhere and start strafing. The rest of the video is just burning and crashing. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the video ends with a shot from below of a bomb being dropped on the poor girl. It’s hard to say what?...
...only top-ranking official not to visit the country to which he had dispatched thousands of American troops. Eventually Bush?s absence would only have highlighted the fragile security situation in the country, where attacks on the Karzai government have been on the rise and President Bush had to swoop in - under the protection of military escorts - in a Blackhawk helicopter instead of the unarmed Presidential chopper that usually ferries him around...
...clichés, for instance. I hate them passionately. And trans fats—they repulse me. Heart-to-heart conversations, romanticism, and the notion that honesty is always the best policy, I also abhor. But since Facebook leaves me no space to air my distastes in one fell swoop, the viewer of my profile has no way of knowing that I am an insincere, cold-hearted, organic food-eating snob with commitment issues. Facebook leaves me feeling as though I’m lying to the world, or at least to the people who are stalking my Facebook profile...
...another speaker, however, that dished out the real partisan red meat. A protégé of Dr. King, the Rev. Joseph Lowery went so far as to bash both Bush’s foreign policy and his domestic agenda in one fell swoop, stating, “She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar. We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there. But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here. Millions without health insurance…poverty abounds?...
...there had been a steady flow of leaks to Italian news outlets capped off last week when a progressive Catholic newswire posted the entire paper on its website. The controversial and carefully worded document is just the sort of news story the Vatican prefers to land in one fell swoop, launching desired changes internally while minimizing the duration of the public reverberations. Instead, the new "instruction" from the Congregation for Catholic Education has remained in the news for weeks, with flip-flopping interpretations that managed neither to limit criticism nor to clearly articulate the pontiff's purpose. And that, despite...