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Krug’s the heart and the project’s steadying influence. “All Fires,” appearing halfway through the album, is his most effective vehicle to date. He howls the tale of a flooding town in which drowning villagers clutch debris to stay above water (“Five hundred pieces means five hundred float/One thousand people means five hundred don’t.”) above gentle tremolo guitars and whistling synths. It’s the high point of the album, and a moment that’s hard...
...event, which was billed by the Dems as a "town meeting," marked the first-ever open debate in which candidates were invited to present their platforms to the group...
...imagined him down in Charleston sitting on the arm of his couch, dangling his feet. There he was, waiting for this college kid to come back on the phone and finish her interview so that, finally, he could untie his mask, let loose his hair, and hit the town...
...people seemed to have a genuine excitement about what they were trying to do. There was very little membrane between the work day and the social events in the evening. That's all gone now. The culture is the same in that thousands of unnoticed people come to this town wanting to do the right thing and trying to do the right thing...
...region's fastest-growing cities is Kayseri, formerly Caesaria, founded more than 3,000 years ago. Today, it still has the appearance of an old Asian trading town. But a tariff agreement signed ten years ago between Turkey and the E.U. gave a massive boost to the city's textile, furniture and electronic supply industries, with 400 new factories having been built in the past five years alone. And the expansion of exports to Europe and the U.S. has improved local quality control and raised labor and industrial standards in the region. Signs of prosperity are everywhere as the city...