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Annie does slip up occasionally. “The Breakfast Song” is a gimmicky track with lyrics as ridiculous as they are irrelevant (“What do you want… what do you want for breakfast?”). Annie’s ghostly natural tone, elsewhere used to brilliant effect, is discarded in favor of a punkish yowling that doesn’t suit her in the slightest...
Afterward, several police officers lied in reports and Cox’s severe injuries were explained as a “slip on the ice,” so that the police officers who beat him received minimal punishment, said Lehr, who wrote about the case in his book, “The Fence: A Police Cover-up Along Boston’s Racial Divide...
...terms of definitive progress, the Obama Administration will end the year having made little more headway than its predecessor: there will be no international climate pact this year, and the deadline for a nuclear-arms deal with Russia will slip into 2010. China offered no concessions on key issues like trade imbalances and human rights. (In fact, its authoritarian government prepped for Obama's arrival by detaining still more dissidents.) Elsewhere in the world, North Korea remains defiant, and Israel - spurning Obama's requests - has announced further settlement expansion. (See pictures of life in the settlements...
After the Crimson finally broke the deadlock with Richard Smith’s 68th-minute goal, the team looked determined not to let the lead slip away...
...class of 2013 was about 7 percent. That’s a number to make even some of us upperclassmen feel insecure. (Back in our day, we were admitted at the embarrassingly bloated rate of about 9 percent. Good thing we managed to slip in when we could.) These days, we wonder, could there be a statistically more impossible dream than getting into Harvard...