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...failed to package that skill correctly. The challenge is to find compelling new slogans for the age-old political art of compromise. To catch fire, Difference-Splitters need to put words like "New" in front of "Democrat" and "Compassionate" in front of "Conservative" and then get everyone humming their tune...
...composed a song based on the tune of the Macarena, based on the work that had been presented." Maldacena said, laughing...
...know how effective laws against underage drinking, smoking and drugs are: they're not. Who's to say that movie-theater carding won't be just as ineffective? If the shooting at Columbine High has taught us anything, it's that parents need to tune in to the very trying lives of their teens. Kids are capable of holding some serious emotions, which if not expressed and understood can lead to destructive actions. Violent movies are, in some ways, a venting mechanism. And rather than blame the movies and place further suffocating laws on kids, why not let them decide...
...aggression ended. Peace prevailed. Dear citizens, happy peace to us all!" It's hard to know how any rational Serb could stand it. After starting and losing four wars in eight years, Milosevic was calling on his people to rejoice. Some bought it, singing along to the government tune. But once the Serbs wake up from their agitprop reverie, they will discover a country in ruins. Some were already awakening: "It's clear now that Milosevic is selling one by one pieces of [Serbian] territory," said Ruza Radovanovic, 57, who weathered the bombing in her Belgrade home...
...Newman the lyricist is a refreshing irritant. And Newman the composer is a sweet seducer. His music is a lush amalgam of Americana (Stephen Foster and Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead/They...