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...enough to encourage listeners to ever get to the lyrics. Even the less-conventional songs—“The Lost Brigade” and “The Toro and the Toreador”—aren’t interesting or experimental enough to warrant their length. Leo’s albums used to be wonderfully, almost paradoxically accessible. “Living with the Living,” however, is low on the bygone balance between sweet song and sour lyric, and ultimately, isn’t worth the effort...
...begin drilling, such large sunk costs would make the company loathe to pull out. In contrast, if oil companies knew before entering or expanding operations that doing so would make them subject to divestment, they might behave differently. Only a targeted divestment policy, by defining the actions that warrant divestment, would effectively deter an oil company from entering the country or proactively affect its behavior if it did decide to enter the country...
...that the law can't be used to "monopolize historical research or knowledge and prevent the legitimate use of historical and biographical material," and that the theories Baigent and Leigh claim Brown pilfered from their book "lay on the wrong side of the line between ideas and expression" to warrant protection...
...There is, of course, skepticism about his motives, intimation that he is trying to buy popularity. "Not even Moses managed to escape this kind of criticism," he says. Nevertheless, Gaydamak's resume is hardly that of a saint. In 2000, France issued a warrant for Gaydamak's arrest, charging that he had contravened French law by engineering a deal that traded weapons, in exchange for oil, to an Angolan government then fighting a brutal civil war. (A year earlier, he had received a suspended sentence for tax evasion.) Gaydamak fled France to avoid arrest - even though he is a member...
...firing of Carol Lam has raised even more eyebrows. On a weekend talk show, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat on the Judiciary committee, revealed that on May 10, Lam, the U.S. attorney in San Diego, had informed the Justice Department about her plans to issue a pair of search warrants in a criminal investigation of defense contractor Brent Wilkes and Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, a former senior CIA administrative official. At the time, Foggo had just resigned after questions were raised about his links to former Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who has pleaded guilty to bribery and is currently serving...