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...whiff of saltpeter hangs over “When the War Came,” The Decemberists’ most overtly political song. They bring out their heavy guitars and sound almost like a mainstream rock band—except for lyrics like “We made our huts of avaram / We’d not betray the sole Ledum...
...aloft his shirt—it appears he was wearing a tuxedo earlier in the night—screaming at him to go faster. Later, looking forward to Mather House’s sweet embrace as I head down Cowperthwaite Street in the early morning, I get one last whiff of Harvard’s social reality. I recognize one of the girls walking ahead of me, a beautiful girl, restrained in section, always well-dressed. Now, that girl is screaming loud profanities about how, no, she doesn’t like this piece of pepperoni pizza, that she only...
...Wakim's campaign manager, Will Holley, agreed that the whiff of scandal has yet to define the race. "Fundamentally it is a local race, and it is going to be won or lost fundamentally on local issues," Holley said. "Our children and grandchildren are moving out of state in droves, and that needs to stop." In a largely Democratic district that, nevertheless, voted for George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004, Holley claims that Mollohan is vulnerable on other issues, such as an amendment to the Constitution banning gay marriage, which he voted against twice. "Whether it is protecting...
...wasn't exactly the G-8. Still, when Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev hosted a summit of heads of neighboring Central Asian states in his capital of Astana earlier this month, there was a certain whiff of power being flexed, albeit arriviste power. The occasion was marked by the inauguration of the Palace of Peace and Accord - a 62-m-high pyramid of steel and pale gray granite, designed by Norman Foster, with stained-glass panels by the artist Brian Clarke. Its art and sculpture were chosen to represent the world's major religions, to underscore the religious tolerance...
...wasn't exactly the G-8. Still, when Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev hosted a summit of heads of neighboring Central Asian states in his capital of Astana earlier this month, there was a certain whiff of power being flexed, albeit arriviste power. The occasion was marked by the inauguration of the Palace of Peace and Accord - a 62-m-high pyramid of steel and pale gray granite, designed [an error occurred while processing this directive] by Norman Foster, with stained-glass panels by the artist Brian Clarke. Its art and sculpture were chosen to represent the world's major...