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...between “C.P.U.,” “Floating in Space,” and “Nobody But You.” All three tracks explore the themes of departure, with the songs containing lyrics like, “You’ve been gone, you’ve been gone / You’ve been away for too long” and “I’ve been gone for too long,” and “You packed your bags and you went away / Searching for the brighter...
...standout track on “All Days Are Nights,” signifies what potential there is in Wainwright’s new style. Employing an uplifting chord progression in a refreshing major key, Wainwright warbles, “The dream has come and gone / The earth lumbers on / The dream is back in space / Back where it came from.” Striking a fantastic, wistful, and yet powerful tone, Wainwright here describes a kind of loss that avoids the lure of saccharine self-pity. His imagery, of an earth “lumbering on?...
...We’re going to look at every game as an important game from here on out,” Tillman said. “Obviously we’re a young team, and we’ve gotten younger as the year’s gone on in some ways, but our goal is that we are growing and learning from these mistakes...
...Such assertions cut little ice with 60% of his compatriots who, according to a survey for the National Army Museum, believe Britain should never have gone into Iraq. The real value of the inquiry may lie in the detailed testimonies provided by witnesses from politics, civil service and the military that are forming a kind of virtual manual of how to not to run such operations. General Frederick Viggers, Britain's senior military representative in Iraq in 2003, told the inquiry that a lack of expertise in Whitehall was responsible for - and continues to create - problems on the ground...
...driven across the border to Quetta, in Pakistan, to clear the canal project with the Taliban leadership. "Apparently, they made a very convincing pitch," Ellis says, and his superiors later confirmed to me. "The canal project would enrich the area. It would be there when the Americans were gone. And the Taliban agreed: the project could go ahead, but they wanted 50% of the workers' pay." (See pictures of President Barack Obama in Afghanistan...