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Robbie Robertson: “Broken Arrow”
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Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Where are the vile beginners of this fray?”
—Romeo And Juliet, 3.1.143
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Kelly Joe Phelps: “River Rat Jimmy”
New PM, Old War
Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is wasting little time in withdrawing his nation’s forces from Iraq:
Mr Rudd’s meeting with Mr Bush was to be a far cry from the previous - and almost annual - visits to Washington by John Howard to stand shoulder to shoulder with his friend.
Mr Bush is becoming increasingly isolated in the US over Iraq. Even the Republicans’ presidential candidate, John McCain, this week turned his back on the Bush Administration’s unilateral approach to foreign policy.
Strategists in Washington said Mr Rudd’s position on Iraq had been accepted by the Administration and was unlikely to raise concerns at the meeting, which was to canvas climate change, the global economic meltdown and security in Asia. Mr Bush was also keen to hear Mr Rudd’s opinions on China.
The US National Security Adviser, Stephen Hadley, said the relationship remained in good shape and the important aspect of the meeting was for the leaders “to get to know one another”.
By urging European countries to do more in Afghanistan, Mr Rudd has avoided angering the US. He and Mr Bush will attend the NATO summit in Bucharest next week and Mr Rudd said Australia had no intention of adding to the 1000 troops it already had in Afghanistan.
This makes Australia’s government a hundred times wiser than ours.
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Gin Blossoms: “Found Out About You”
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“They have made worms’ meat of me.”
—Romeo And Juliet, 3.1.109
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“O calm, dishonorable vile submission.”
—Romeo And Juliet, 3.1.72
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“What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?”
—Romeo And Juliet, 3.1.20-21
Higg Out
In Geneva, they’re trying to find…everything:
Scientists at CERN, Europe’s atom-smashing laboratory, are preparing for the greatest experiment in the history of particle physics which could unveil a sub-atomic component, the Higgs Boson, which is so tantalising that it has been called “the God Particle”…
The “Higgs,” named after a British physicist, Peter Higgs, who first proposed it in 1964, would fill a gaping hole in the benchmark theory for understanding the physical cosmos.
Other work on the so-called Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could explain dark matter and dark energy — strange phenomena that, stunned astrophysicists discovered a few years ago, account for 96 percent of the Universe.
It could shed clues on the mystery of how the Universe came to be.
And it may determine whether, as some physicists believe, space-time holds dimensions other than our own.
Far out, man.
