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...sanguine. Just a few summers ago, the American rock festival seemed destined for the trash heap of music history. As recently as 2004, Lollapalooza, the granddaddy of traveling rock happenings, was struggling to stay afloat as sagging ticket sales and a general decline in live concert attendance took its toll. But the following year, Lollapalooza retooled itself from a touring entity into a two-day event based in Chicago's Grant Park. More than 60,000 people showed up to see a slate of some 60 bands that included the Pixies, the Killers, Arcade Fire and Widespread Panic. The event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock and Radiohead in Tennessee | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

...only turned over every stone, he'd turned over every pebble," Luskin said. "Karl is obviously relieved. He felt, and I certainly believe quite correctly, that he'd done his very best to cooperate as best he could, right from the beginning. This has taken an enormous toll on him and his family, to be in the center of something like this and to have these things said about him day after day and week after week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rove: Glad the Burden Is Lifted | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...Martin says the rigorous showrunner schedule did take its toll, often leaving Jean and Reiss “looking like they’d been in a POW camp...

Author: By Sam Teller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Al Jean & Mike Reiss | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...rate of sectarian killings has escalated sharply since the Feb. 22 bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. In Baghdad alone, morgue officials say they have received at least 3,500 bodies since the bombing. Some of those officials have told TIME they routinely understated the toll because of political pressure from the interim Iraqi government to deny that the capital was in the throes of a civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Self-Inflicted Wounds | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...players last month for wearing shorts. Iraqis honed their imperviousness to atrocity under Saddam Hussein, when the regime killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens. But the sheer numbers of victims from this war has deepened the desensitization. That may explain why the debates about the overall death toll don't seem to resonate with many Iraqis. "What is the use of numbers?" asks Mithal Alussi, a secular, independent member of the Iraqi Parliament. "When you reach a point when every Iraqi can say that a member of his family or a close friend was killed, then statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Self-Inflicted Wounds | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

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