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Impressively, Sade have managed to generate ten new song titles, which is seven more than there are distinguishable songs on the album. Most tracks on “Soldier of Love” hit the same low-tempo, somniferous groove that repeats until it stops, briefly, as if for convention??s sake, and then resumes in another key. The rhythm section, the core of any decent R&B group, sounds too often like the drum and bass GarageBand loops characterized by seamless, emotionally-bereft rhythmic accuracy and a robotic inability to feel—it?...
...commemorative speech given by Visiting Professor of Law Richard J. Goldstone, followed by a panel discussion yesterday evening. The event, “The Genocide Convention at 60 Years: New Challenges or the Same Ones?” analyzed legal and humanitarian effects of the post-World War II convention??“its impact, its meaning, its relevance for the next 60 years,” said panel moderator Jennifer Leaning, a Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health professor. “Genocide was appropriately called by Winston Churchill the crime of crimes...
...Spotlighting Governor Sarah Palin as the convention??s focus was a directional error. Naturally, one would expect that the convention??or much of the Republican campaign for that matter—would emphasize McCain’s comparative advantage over Obama. Indeed, this comparison has many valid discussion points; differences in tax and foreign policy, for example, continue to define the political debate. Ironically, though, Republicans used the convention mainly to introduce and display their vice presidential candidate, Governor Palin, thus comparing her against the focus of the Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama...
...role in publicizing the party platform. The DNC was fairly successful in this way; after it was over and McCain announced his running-mate, Obama led McCain by about seven percentage points in an average of five national polls. The RNC’s repercussions may be different. The convention??s focus on Palin left a lasting impression on Americans. After Palin’s speech Wednesday night at the convention, Obama’s campaign made $10 million—a one-day fundraising record. Coincidence or not? I leave the comparison...
...would plan none of it. The best date I’ve ever been asked out on was to a fluff convention??an entire convention about fluff, that marshmallow shit...