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...finishing its last album, Up (its first without original drummer Bill Berry, who retired after recovering from a brain aneurysm and lives on a farm outside Athens, Ga.), the guys did disband--but only briefly. "When we mixed that record, I thought it was our last will and testament," says Stipe. "Then we talked, and we realized that each of us wanted to continue making music somehow and that the people we wanted to continue making music with were in the room." Says Buck: "We just had to get past the weird stuff...
...Holocaust from its deceptively mundane beginning to a heretofore unstaged end. Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli. A bloodless yet brutal testament to the violence of euphemism and groupthink--eerily indistinguishable from any middle managers' meeting--it is the banality of evil brought unignorably to life...
Police are trained to regard any encounter with any citizen as a potentially deadly one--for the officer. Cities have plaques bearing the names of police officers killed in the line of duty--a chilling testament to why the police are trained to respond in this way. I don't in any way condone the fatal shooting of African American Timothy Thomas by a white Cincinnati, Ohio, police officer, and my prayers go out to his family. But White's list of "survival tactics" should be observed by Americans of all colors in their dealings with police officers...
...hits are a testament to the power of the Internet to bring us closer together. Computers from as far away as Thailand and Japan have found their way to my humble apartment in New York City. A Canadian identified only as guelphppp217545.sympatico.ca must have wanted in badly. He, she or it tried 15 times over the course of a few minutes. Now, when I get home at the end of the day and check my e-mail, I also look to see who's been knocking at my computer door. I'm on to you, newteq.com.tw telocity.com and pascal-jp.com...
...career, devoted himself to the still life, finding in simple objects—the bowl, the cloth, the tableboth—the abstract and the specific. Ablow’s show of “Recent Paintings” at the Pucker Gallery in Boston is a testament both to his innovation and his artistic stamina...