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...this year. Though John Kerry has criticized the Administration for its economic policies toward China, he and George W. Bush agree that sound relations with Beijing are the key to stability in Asia. So Powell was able to touch down in China nine days before the U.S. election with a mandate that both candidates support: encouraging talks across the Taiwan Strait, and finding a way to persuade North Korea to shut down its nuclear weapons program...
...Cleveland, OH, the elections board is running television advertisements on how to properly punch an absentee ballot, and in Florida lawsuits are already underway to challenge the use of touch screen voting machines in 15 counties. While the final weeks before the election may find much of the country arguing over who they will vote for, in many places, the real question is how they will vote...
...year pieced the fragments of Smile into a workable order and rerecorded the album from scratch. The resulting product is brilliant, and its very existence borders on the miraculous—who would have guessed Brian would be the last surviving Wilson brother?—but nothing can touch the ambience of anxiety, mania, and rapidly imploding self-confidence that makes the original recordings so hauntingly incredible. For the music and for the story behind it, the unfinished Smile recordings of 1966 and 1967 are my choice as singular monument to both the promise and disappointment of drug culture...
What’s up for the future—record deals, international success? The Elegant Touch has another vision, according to Pasternack. “Our vision is of a show in a vertical configuration as opposed to just a horizontal one—we’re working on it for a concert this year.” He explains, “Either some scaffolding system or simply standing on each other’s shoulders while each of us plays our respective instrument. Aside from reminding people of a rocket ship blasting off into the future...
...loving Broviet Union, the free-minded collective, the open Elegant Touch, and the serious Half Nelsons, unique in their personal and musical styles, but similar in their dedication to simultaneously being passionate and not really giving a shit. By fusing the laid-back principles of rock and roll with the intensity and intelligence of Harvard, these bands are able to create a memorable and artful musical experience, even if they won’t necessarily exist the day after tomorrow...