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...Iraq is the Achilles heel of E.U. foreign policy," says Steven Everts of the Centre for European Reform in London. "The European debate has been too reactive: Do you or do you not support a U.S. attack?" Everts argues that instead of responding with horror to each new leaked report of U.S. battle plans, the E.U. should come up with alternatives of its own and inject these into Washington's deliberations...
...moment I could feel my stomach clutch. Hair wasn't supposed to do that, not in the '50s. Gene Vincent's was greasy, James Brown's extravagantly pompadoured, Elvis's as carefully coiffed as the 18th green at Augusta. Jerry Lee's hair was a creature from a horror film, a redneck monster that arose, erupted and smothered its host. The Attack of the 50 Ft. Flaxen! Great bolls of follicles...
...Wall Street meltdown and the ongoing parade of corporate scandals--took time out last week to handle the slippery creature, dispatching Interior Secretary Gail Norton to announce plans to seal the porous U.S. borders against the importation of any more snakeheads. "These fish are like something from a bad horror movie," Norton intoned darkly last Tuesday...
Loss is everywhere on The Rising, but the album's best track, You're Missing, penetrates the unique horror of having a loved one turned to ash. Lyrically the song is a catalog of absence: a coffee cup on the counter, a newspaper on a doorstep. But the song rises to greatness because Springsteen not only recognizes dramatic details but also knows what they mean. "Loss is about what you miss," he says. "You miss a person's physical being--their skin, their hair, the way they smell, the way they make you feel. You miss their body. When...
...least 16 Filipinas have escaped from bars near Tongduchon since June, bringing with them similar horror stories. Official statistics show 5,000 women have been trafficked in Korea since the mid-'90s, but human-rights groups says the real figure is much higher. More than 8,500 foreign women entered Korea last year on "entertainment" visas, mostly Filipinas and Russians. These visas are a tool for international trafficking, says Goh Hyun Ung, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration: "The women don't know they are going to be locked up as soon as they get to clubs...