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...speaking at a business round table, where slurred words don't win points, the Big Easy thankfully offers more than just decadence. Try Bourbon Street when a noon wake-up won't get you fired. The scene is worth surveying just once. But if your time in Nawlins is short, missing the cultural, musical and epicurean delights outside the French Quarter will feel worse than an afternoon hangover...
...packed and tough workload. WHO'S RUNNING UKRAINE WHILE WE AWAIT THE DEC. 26 PRESIDENTIAL VOTE? Dual powers have always existed in this country. The presidential staff functioned as the real government, while the formal Cabinet answered to them. But these state institutions have lost their legitimacy. In the wake of the stolen election, public opinion emerged and caused public institutions like the National Salvation Committee [a shadow government launched by Yushchenko shortly after the disputed Nov. 21 vote] to spring up. There is now a third power - the electorate, who are not organized into formal civic institutions but strongly...
...Israeli military strength. Yasser Arafat's legacy is a shattered economy, a bankrupt government and numerous militant organizations like Hamas. Donald Mintz Sunnyvale, California, U.S. Hot Times in the Arctic "Meltdown!" [Nov. 22], your article on the impact of global warming in the Arctic, was especially timely in the wake of the re-election of Bush, who so arrogantly dismissed the Kyoto Protocol. The U.S. is a nation of selfish materialists who refuse to be good stewards of the earth, and we deserve every abuse Mother Nature heaps upon us. It's just too bad the rest of the world...
...immortal-as-they-are-esoteric Boredoms have recently released a new album, Seadrum/House of Sun. Almost 20 years after they began patching together their unique mishmash of experimental noise, the Boredoms are still going strong, releasing more than 15 albums, leaving countless side projects in their wake and recently touring as “the V8rdoms,” consistently putting on immensely long and sprawling psychedelic trance-noise-rock performances. This V8rdoms-esque record, though officially released with the moniker Boredoms, features their godfather, Eye Yamatsuka (a.k.a. Eye Yamantaka, or just eYe, best known for his legendarily abrasive/invasive noise...
...Baseball defines my life,” Wolff said. “I wake up, go to class, go to lifting, go to practice. It describes the structure of my life, and it’s something that I love very much...