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...Beirut Whatever Happens, one of the band's original songs, which channels the postpunk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure but seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan, "It's Safer Underground," during last summer's Israeli air raids...
...educated, saw him almost as a son and worried about what would happen to him after his own death. The Barber story is narrated by a self-styled philanthropist who wishes that "all ebony personages" be resettled in Africa or the West Indies - but only because the English air "soon reduces these creatures to a state of childish helplessness," bringing the whole country down...
...contracted plane crashed in 2004, leaving three United States soldiers dead. In a successful suit filed by the families of the soldiers claiming that the contractors were in violation of multiple laws, four contracting firms were named: Aviation Worldwide Services LLC, Presidential Airways Inc., STI Aviation Inc., and Air Quest Inc. According to the report, these are all subsidiaries of the Prince Group, the military contracting arm of which is Blackwater USA.Given that Blackwater employees have a history of disregard for the law and an overly aggressive stance when performing their jobs abroad, it is disappointing?...
...accusing the head of American forces in Iraq of treason. The ad can also be interpreted - more plausibly if you consider the rest of the text - merely as questioning the general's honesty, not his patriotism. But whatever your interpretation of the ad, all the gasping for air and waving of scented handkerchiefs among the war's most enthusiastic supporters is pretty comical...
Unluckily for the junta, the monks have been speaking up ever more loudly. On September 5, protests by clergy members in the holy city of Pakokku turned violent when security forces fired warning shots in the air, only to have the monks respond by taking officials hostage and torching their cars...