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...Baby 81,” the San Francisco trio Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (BRMC) returns to its rock and roll roots, delivering a fourth album that, while often unoriginal, remains thoroughly enjoyable. During the absence of British drummer Nick Jago, BRMC recorded “Howl,” an album of folky acoustic songs. But now that Jago has overcome his substance abuse issues, BRMC are back in their comfort zone. “Baby 81” opens with “Took Out a Loan,” a typical classic rock song that could have been...
...think it's naive to believe that there are cultures in which teens are entirely without turmoil. To some extent, being a teenager means being in turmoil. Read more at time.com/robertepstein London Fog Judging from the published letters that were critical of the European Union [April 16], many British do not feel European and still live in the atmosphere symbolized by that famous headline: fog on the channel; continent isolated. When people criticize the supposed lack of democracy with which the E.U. rules are instituted, they forget that those rules must be approved by the European Council, composed...
...success? Raphael F. Rousseau, LYON, FRANCE Congratulations on your insightful piece. While I fully agree with your analysis of why young French people in particular leave their country in order to find better career prospects elsewhere, one must not lose sight of two facts: tens of thousands of British people, including myself, have come to France to settle down in their retirement, and France remains the No. 1 tourist destination in Europe. In other words, the French are getting some things right. As for changing things in überconservative France, the only presidential candidate with some chance of doing...
...established, Condi Rice ordered the interagency committee that had been constituted to deal with postwar planning issues to fold its tent. It was only a short while later, however, that, as one White House official told me, "The shit hit the fan and we had to rely on the British to tell us what was going on because we were getting no political reporting out of CPA." Rice then ordered the NSC process to start up again. But by then, fundamental decisions on disbanding the army and de-Ba'athification had already been made. The early returns filtering back...
...their relationship is more interesting than what the rich canon of American romance literature, or even Hollywood, has made of it. Pocahontas and Smith shared a deep friendship based, at a minimum, on mutual fascination, admiration and respect. Their relationship almost certainly saved Jamestown, opening the way to British empire in America...