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...gained access to an “exclusive” dance club in Miami this past Columbus Day. Then came unsolicited advice: “You would have to wear khakis and a dress shirt at least.” The pungent scent of vodka wafting from her unshuttable trap was almost enough to intoxicate everyone else on board...
...Words Grows If the real war had not yet started last week, the battle for hearts and minds intensified, with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair leading the offensive. In a powerful speech to the Labour Party's annual conference in Brighton, Blair promised, "We will put a trap around the regime and I say to the Taliban: Surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice." He also claimed that there was "no doubt" that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group were responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. In support of Blair's certainty the British...
...Never Be) Your Maggie May,” to the lithe, staccato “Solitaire.” Yet the punch is all in her lyrics, full of extended metaphors and vivid imagery that catch the listener off-guard like a pit-trap in the leafy beauty of her music. She has Michael Stipe’s talent for turning unmanageable turns of phrase into effortless cadences. There are few who could sing, “Look at all the waifs of Dickensian England / Why is it their suffering is more picturesque?” without it clunking...
...fight a guerrilla war with conventional forces," President Bush said, which is why the action was elsewhere last week. The armies were indeed at war, but for the moment it was the armies of foreign ministers and finance wizards and spooks and geeks and anyone who could somehow trap and strangle the enemy. Meanwhile, the new generals of Homeland Security tried to button down the country, knowing that any U.S. attack is likely to trigger a retaliatory strike and that this time we need to be ready. We will just have to get used to something we have never seen...
...fight a guerrilla war with conventional forces," President Bush said, which is why the action was elsewhere last week. The armies were indeed at war, but for the moment it was the armies of foreign ministers and finance wizards and spooks and geeks and anyone who could somehow trap and strangle the enemy. Meanwhile, the new generals of Homeland Security tried to button down the country, knowing that any U.S. attack is likely to trigger a retaliatory strike and that this time we need to be ready. We will just have to get used to something we have never seen...