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...glee as he intones the blessings.Speaking of Jews, highlight number two was a huge surprise. The Silver Jews is a band that’s been around since the early ’90s, but had never toured until last year. Initial reviews of their live shows had been tepid, at best, so we all had our doubts.Jesus Christ, were we wrong. Frontman David Berman is, first and foremost, a poet, and songs like “Dallas” and “Trains Across the Sea” were heart-wrenching and earnest to the point of goosebumps.Even...
...watchdog group's beef with Interior is tepid compared with the blast delivered a day earlier by the department's own inspector general, Earl Devaney. In scorching testimony before a House Government Reform subcommittee the no-nonsense Devaney charged that during his seven years as Interior's IG his revelations of misdeeds and foul-ups have been routinely "disregarded by the department." Numerous IG reports on regulations circumvented, procurement irregularities, project failures and bureaucrats being awarded bonuses despite their failures have been met with "vehement challenges" by Interior officials "to the quality of our audits, evaluations and investigations," he told...
...Faculty voted last spring to push back the concentration choice deadline to sophomore year and to allow undergraduates to declare secondary fields, similar to minors. Previous General Education proposals, however, have been sent back to the drawing board after meeting tepid receptions from the Faculty...
...hands in the street. But the long, libertine honeymoon is over. The hard line now seems to begin at home for the Ahmadinejad regime (which last week inaugurated a new reactor project, defying a U.N. demand to end its uranium-enrichment work by Aug. 31, and gave only a tepid response to the West's offer of incentives). Over the past few months, various branches of the government have stealthily rolled back freedoms with moves like the reinstatement of gender segregation in public institutions. Because the Iranian system comprises ministries with overlapping mandates and security apparatuses that operate independently...
...just have to take my word, children, that once upon a time a movie company could set moral and behavioral standards - just as you'll have to believe there was a time when anybody could become a hot property by playing it warm-to-tepid, and could achieve prominence in the Hollywood cosmology inhabiting roles of sweetheart, wife and mom - when "nice" could be taken for star quality...