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There were a few weak numbers, particularly a two-drum, no-guitar number that hasn’t appeared on any Liars release. This song’s primitivism failed to catch the audience’s attention and was perhaps too experimental to appear in a raw form without a fully fleshed-out album version that concert-goers could recognize. The balance between the meditative drones and boisterous freak-outs was skewed, with slower songs at the beginning that only gradually picked...
...frenzy of callbacks and final casting decisions—the cast, per Pudding tradition, is all-male, with female roles performed in drag—and culminates in a first read-through of the script that very night. It is a rapid-fire process, and not designed for the weak...
...would be easy to dismiss this small, weak country in a region that is easily forgotten in the context of our more pressing crises. But Georgia’s troubles are significant for two reasons that have been at the top of lawmakers’ agendas for a while: energy dependence and terrorism. If the United States is serious about reducing its dependence on Middle East oil, its best prospect is this unassuming Caspian nation, which could hold the key for our future in oil and natural gas. But more importantly, if Georgia continues on its current track of escalating...
Over the past several decades, the Russian government has made dangerous incursions into Georgian affairs in an effort to keep the central government weak so that it can exert its own leverage, both economically and militarily. Moscow has effectively prevented fomer president Shevardnadze from unifying the country by granting Russian citizenship to entire Georgian states on their shared border; and has been known to cut off the nation’s gas supplies in the middle of winter for political reasons when Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across...
...best, Chinese courts are weak and unreliable institutions, despite increasingly successful efforts to improve their quality. In politically sensitive criminal cases the courts simply take orders from Communist Party and government leaders...