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...late in tom petty's career for him to monkey with his sound, and on The Last DJ, Petty's 14th album, he remains a committed minimalist, letting jangly guitars, floating keyboards and his much imitated whine rule the day. But Petty is still evolving as a writer, and The Last DJ contains his most interesting and confident material in a decade. As ever, there are small-time characters with big-time regrets, but whereas previous Petty protagonists had no one to blame but themselves, many of these losers are paralyzed by the grip of corporate culture. On Money Becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young, Restless and Ageless | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...soon as I put my class in groups to work on acting out a vocabulary word or preparing a debate case, they are endlessly in motion, sliding back and forth across the classroom, jumping up from their seats, running in and out of our door. They scream, whine and fight unless I let Hermela, Mercedes and Shavon be one group, while Justin, Hassan and Elon remove themselves to the other side of the room...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, | Title: Assigned Seating Next Time | 7/26/2002 | See Source »

...built runway at Manas International Airport here, bringing him for the first time to his key base in the war on terror. The base is well on is way to becoming the central staging area for U.S. military operations in this part of the globe. Hammers clatter and saws whine across the post, dubbed Ganci Air Base after New York City Fire Chief Peter Ganci Jr., who died at the World Trade Center. Engineers are busy putting up housing for 2,000 troops, half of them American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Kyrgyzstan: The U.S. Moves In | 4/27/2002 | See Source »

...slow boat was half the fare for the souped-up floating dragsters that rend the Mekong's serenity with their high-pitched whine?and probably 50 times safer. That it took two days to chug the 300 km downstream instead of six hours seemed a reasonable trade-off, particularly after watching boatloads of spray-drenched adventurers go roaring past, teeth clenched and legs braced against every bone-rattling bounce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...fouled the whole game and didn’t get any calls,” Delaney-Smith said. “She’s tough. You’re not going to see her react to that. You’re not going to see her whine. And that’s why I feel she’s a great player...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Stays In First With Sweep | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

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