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...track. The studio version of this song is about the same, except for the styling of the phrase “break the fuckin’ spiral,” vociferously grrr-ed by lead singer Kristin Hersh in sharp contrast to the album version’s more tepid version of the oath. Delicious! She’s not the best-looking angst-ridden siren, but this second of song makes her a veritable goddess...
However, even the immediacy of a live performance couldn’t save some of the tepid new album’s songs, such as “High Speed Train,” which sounded overwhelmed and impenetrable. Although the pounding drums added a sense of urgency to the song, Stipe’s voice was restrained and the song dense and sinister...
...miserable fourth place behind the Liberal Democrats and the U.K. Independence Party, but still suffering a big drop in its own votes compared to the last general election. Last week at Labour's annual conference, a forum where Blair usually shines, he had to placate grumpy delegates with a tepid semi-apology for the Iraq war; "I acknowledge and accept" that the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was wrong, he said, but "I can't, sincerely at least, apologize for removing Saddam." As one M.P. said, "I wasn't inspired" - and this was the kickoff for a general election...
...answer lies as much in psychology as in economics. "There's not a lot of logic to the move that oil has had," says Jeff Kleintop, chief investment strategist at PNC Advisors, noting that a tepid U.S. jobs report last Friday raises the specter of a decelerating economy, which would cut demand for oil. Indeed, share prices of U.S. refiners like Sunoco and ConocoPhillips tumbled even further than the overall market did last week...
...passage of the new charter and spearheaded ratification efforts in New York State. He therefore set to work at Treasury with more unrestrained gusto than Jefferson--who had monitored the Constitutional Convention from his post in Paris--did at State. Jefferson's enthusiasm for the new political order was tepid at best, and when Washington crafted the first government in 1789, Jefferson didn't grasp the levers of power with quite the same glee as Hamilton, who had no ideological inhibitions about shoring up federal power...