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True, little new ground is covered in Guero—but since when has “new” categorically meant “better”? As long as there exist listeners who prefer sea glass to plate glass, urban decay to suburban sprawl, and redux to deluxe, Beck will maintain a corps of loyal fans. “My shivering voice is singing through a crack in the window, I’d better go it alone,” Beck murmurs. No need, Beck. We’re still here...
True, little new ground is covered in Guero—but since when has “new” categorically meant “better”? As long as there exist listeners who prefer sea glass to plate glass, urban decay to suburban sprawl, and redux to deluxe, Beck will maintain a corps of loyal fans. “My shivering voice is singing through a crack in the window, I’d better go it alone,” Beck murmurs. No need, Beck. We’re still here...
...politics’ best-known urban myths is almost ready for its Bar Mitzvah...
...ideal world, Wen and Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister, would spend their time together eagerly discussing what they could learn from each other. China has been much more successful than India at creating a modern urban infrastructure and at eradicating really dire poverty. India has been better at seeding centers of excellence in high technology. (Wen will visit Bangalore, of course.) China, for all its astonishing success, still has to figure out how a monolithic, nondemocratic governmental structure can manage a decentralized market economy. In India, as a senior New Delhi-based U.S. official said recently, "that question...
...coercion in defense of the truth. It overturned a tradition of sanctioned violence that went back to Constantine and St. Augustine. Paul VI made its meaning explicit by going before the U.N. General Assembly to declare, "No more war! War never again!" This was a reversal of Pope Urban II's 1095 call for the Crusades: "God wills...