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...More News from Nowhere” closes the album with recurring allusions to Homer’s “Odyssey.” Again, Cave’s weathered vocals take center stage, but the narrative fits firmly between the faint white-noise background and the soft guitar plucks. Ultimately, nihilism turns to exhausted agnosticism as Cave laments his own insignificance: “Don’t it make you feel alone? / Don’t it make you want to get right back home?” For Cave, at least, home is long gone...
That was one of the themes raised at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where scientists lamented that Washington continues to short-shrift international scientific cooperation, which is increasingly regarded as a crucial tool of soft power for spreading prosperity and enhancing American competitiveness...
...make public her vast, unseen records from her days as First Lady and peel back the secrecy surrounding who has given what to the Clinton Library. And Obama's campaign leveled its own charges at reporters for buying into the Clinton line that media coverage of Obama has been soft. "He has to find a way to bring out the contrasts without becoming a political attack dog," said a longtime Obama backer. "There's plenty of grist there...
...hold that lead. And part of it was, there's a natural cycle on the coverage of these campaigns. I actually think that what probably had the most impact this past week was the press buying into this notion that they have been too tough on her or too soft on me. I actually think that had the biggest impact. She complained to the referees and the referees gave her some calls...
...both states have made clear is that any new vote must not be paid for with public money, and the Democratic National Committee doesn't have the cash to do it either. That, however, is not an insurmountable obstacle, as federal law allows the state parties to raise unregulated "soft money," and well-heeled Democratic donors across the country presumably would see the need to get the issue resolved and chip in, especially if both campaigns support the idea. "The biggest incentive for both campaigns is that this is a way to repair all the damage, and build for November...