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Rolling Stone gives it three stars and says "believe it or not, his album is a genuinely rocking detention-room blowout, a spew of motormouthed microwaved teen rebellion upholding the noble legacy of Twisted Sister" (Rob Sheffield).
The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post lead with Wednesday's Supreme Court decision upholding the limitation on the First Amendment rights of illegal immigrants imposed by the 1996 immigration reform law.
It is a terrible responsibility, upholding her society's values and preventing her siblings and Michael, the illegitimate son of her youngest sister, Christina (Catherine McCormack), from descending into chaos and impoverishment.
This represents a small but telling victory for those Democrats--I call them Money Liberals--for whom getting cash to the poor, not upholding the work ethic, is the most important thing.
Yasser Arafat, having tried to show the Israelis he's serious about upholding his end of the just-concluded peace accords by arresting scores of Hamas members, is now, reports the WP , being threatened in a Hamas leaflet with violent retaliation.