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...battling the martial polyrhythms of looped percussion tracks. On “Jigsaw Falling into Place,” Yorke sings, “What’s the use of instruments? / Words are a sawed-off shotgun.” There’s the usual amount of vocal retouching, but his spare lyrics are more point-blank then they have been in recent memory. They’re almost unfailingly ambiguous, yet they get deep beneath the skin—at least ours, if not his.“Weird Fish/Arpeggi” features the line...
...According to Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the City University of Hong Kong, Chan could become a dignified face for the territory's vocal but ineffective opposition. She is also helped by the fact that her opponent carries plenty of political baggage. Ip remains unpopular in many quarters for her support of a divisive, and ultimately failed, antisubversion bill. That controversy, which brought half a million Hong Kong people onto the streets in protest in July 2003, led to Ip's resignation as Secretary for Security. Ip recently made a public apology for her aggressive promotion of the bill...
...little added moisture would keep them earthbound. And the solution to the performance problem was to get better baseball players, but on the cheap. Thus, the new Monfort doctrine: No more free agents; more investment in the farm system. Yet the franchise continued to sink, and fans grew more vocal. The Monforts' defensive reply: Tough...
...most vocal detractors of birth-order research question less the findings of the science than the methods. To achieve any kind of statistical significance, investigators must assemble large samples of families and look for patterns among them. But families are very different things-distinguished by size, income, hometown, education, religion, ethnicity and more. Throw enough random factors like those into the mix, and the results you get may be nothing more than interesting junk...
...object of contention between the conservative Popular Party (PP), which has taken to playing it at demonstrations against government policies, and the ruling Socialists, who accuse the opposition of attempting to "appropriate" the symbols of the state. With its pro-Spanish-unity stance, the PP has been noticeably more vocal than other parties in expressing its support for new lyrics...