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...eerily distorted distant-sounding guitar combines with the everpresent hi-hat cymbal to reinforce the milieu of gloom developed by the lyrics. “Broken Mirror” also marks a turning point in the album. The songs leading up to it are violent. The beginning of “Something, Anything” blares like the Arctic Monkeys. Healy basically screams all of “Long Way Down,” his voice audibly straining to articulate the rage of his harshest lyrics: “Mama / An eye for an eye / You said you?...
...between convergent tectonic plates under the earth's surface. The plates suddenly slip and the ground rumbles with the release of friction. Geologists have found evidence of earthquakes in California that go back thousands of years, although the first strong, documented earthquake occurred in Los Angeles in 1769. A violent earthquake in the 7.9 range toppled trees and buildings around Fort Tejon - a mountainside Army base - in 1857. As severe as the quake was, the state was so sparsely populated at the time that only two people died. The Santa Cruz Mountains and surrounding areas - San Francisco, San Jose, Santa...
...place too. In the newly deregulated American economy, fewer people had job security or fixed-benefit pensions or reliable health care. Some got rich, but a lot went bankrupt, mostly because of health-care costs. As Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker has noted, Americans today experience far-more-violent swings in household income than did their parents a generation ago. (See pictures of the 1958 recession...
...Whether the charges against the accused will stand in a court of law remains to be seen. What is clear is that India now faces a dangerous epidemic of violent communalization, which threatens to polarize the polity and destroy the secular character of the state...
...well. Hindu right-wing parties have used Islamist terrorism to play upon the majority community's resentment at a sense of persecution by the minority Muslim community. "One hopes the arrests will cause some introspection," says Rangarajan, "Maybe [Hindu right-wing leaders] will give up their politics of violent communal polarization...