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...don’t force that takeaway and make that play, there’s not a lot of gas left in the tank,” Murphy added...
...morass of undistinguished low-key Beach Boys homage. The Furries’ trademark has always been their eccentricities, but here the music seemed positively average, and the quirky presentation came across as more silly than innovative. While their previously preferred mode of entrance was an honest-to-God tank, this time around they showed a video of a golf cart ride before walking onto the stage; it seems like Wales’ most famous musical export has aged considerably. That’s not to say that they didn’t try to put on a show...
...moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass.? Kitsch denies the earthy messiness of life. And ?totalitarian kitsch,? he writes, outlaws individualism, doubt and irony, because they risk exposing the beautiful lie it is designed to sustain. The gulag, Kundera argues, is ?a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.? But in Pleasantville, of course, there is no mention of any gulag, only of children running on the grass...
...counterterrorism. The bureau has come under fire from hard-line pundits, who charge that it is reaching out to American Muslim leaders sympathetic to extremists. "They are providing an endorsement of these individuals, which enhances their credibility," says Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, a conservative think tank in Philadelphia. (The FBI insists it works only with moderates like Magid.) But some ADAMS members are still uncomfortable about their imam's talking to an intelligence service, while other conservative clerics have complained to Magid that he is selling out. Although they keep those reservations private for fear they...
...defense. (Since the Japanese forces in Iraq can only use their weapons in strictly defined circumstances, they have themselves had to be defended at various times by British, Dutch and Australian troops.) At a conference in Tokyo sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, just a day before the Futenma agreement, Lawless stunned his audience by blasting the inertia, complacency and inadequacy of Japan's armed forces. Rather than offering the usual congratulations for support in Iraq and the Indian Ocean, Lawless called Japan's military initiatives over the years "quite modest." Japan's defense planning, Lawless...