1. The Strokes - Barely Legal
2. The Jam - Private Hell
3. Counting Crows - Rain King
4. Pixies - There Goes My Gun
5. Toots & the Maytals - Got To Be There
6. Nena - 99 Luftballoons
7. U2 - Even Better than the Real Thing
8. The Clash - Know Your Rights
9. Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade
10. The [...]
Jeffrey Jones, former chairman of American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) in Korea, said honesty and transparency were necessary ingredients for Korea to become a real power in the world.
“We have to be honest, we must be transparent to make a greater country,” Jones said in a lecture at the 44th Seoul English Study Association (SESA) [...]
Jon Allen over at I’m A Seoul Man blog wrote the following:
Daniel Martin, currently teaching English in Seoul, has planned a trip by bicycle from Korea to Cape Town, South Africa. Daniel has already cycled from London to Cape Town, and has now found a tougher challenge: “The Axis of Evil (by bike)”. He plans [...]
1. Big Time - Peter Gabriel
2. Please Forgive Me - David Gray
3. Just the Way I’m Feeling - Feeder
4. A Wolf at the Door - Radiohead
5. Forever Loving Jah - Bob Marley
6. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
7. Gun Slinger - Bo Diddley
8. Wishing Stone - Dot Allison
9. So Young - The Stone Roses
10. Hi-Heel Sneakers [...]
In the early ’90s, I owned this model auto. A true beast and money pit. As I recall, it got about 9 mpg in the city and maybe 15 mpg on the highway. It was impossible to find parking for it and my girlfriend refused to drive it, but in the summer with [...]
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons.Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago. Experts say the corrosive guano deposited [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — The parents of a Purdue University student who was electrocuted in a dormitory’s high-voltage utility room have agreed to a settlement in which the school will pay $500,000 to the family and $100,000 for a scholarship endowment.
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The $500,000 was paid in a lump sum to Steffey’s parents, Dale Steffey and Dawn Adams of [...]
VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is indeed surreal. Counterinsurgency is, by definition, a competition between insurgents and counterinsurgents for the control and support of a population. To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over [...]
Back from Hong Kong this week - a great city. Visited two of my very good friends who have recently moved there. However, no rest as I am off again this weekend for Texas. I vow to update my blog regularly in September. Until then:
1. Tell Her This - Del Amitri
2. La La Love You [...]
