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...Given that the Beta Band's music embraces both the summer of love and the Tony Blair era, it's only fitting that the showstopping last track on Hot Shots II should be "Won," a cover of Harry Nilsson's 1968 composition "One" with a rap section thrown in. The juxtaposition of sixties pop with contemporary beats and rhymes is silly, self-consciously experimental, and ultimately beautiful -the Beta Band in a nut shell. If they and their fellow nod-inducers from across the Atlantic continue to churn out tunes of this caliber, we shall not want for lush, trippy...
...became so bad that some weeks before the FBI finally pulled out, U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine refused to let the head of the FBI's investigative team, John O'Neill, who matches her reputation for combativeness, back into Yemen. She continues to bar his entry. "O'Neill has been thrown out of better places than that," an FBI agent says. "They hate each other," says a U.S. official. "And that's obviously worked to the detriment of the case...
...reported that while walking on Cambridge Parkway he had been struck in the face with a bottle thrown by a suspect known to him from the Harvard Square area...
...criticizes Joe for juicing up his lectures, I said to myself, and I will show you someone who has never stood before a roomful of yawning, eye-rolling college students in turned-around baseball caps, slouching toward the horizontal in their chairs, some of them actually snoring, heads thrown back and mouths wide open, so that you see all the way to the tonsils - a classroom that looks like the waiting room at Dulles International when it's socked in by a three-day blizzard...
...that there are new security questions to be addressed, but how those are addressed remains an open question. They're even more open to reexamining measures (such as the ABM treaty) that had been designed for a bipolar world. But the Europeans are insisting that the baby not be thrown out with the bathwater. They're saying we can't put all our eggs in the missile defense basket - there needs to be a new framework of multilateral strategic treaties to address the new proliferation dangers...