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(07/19/07 4:00am)
For those of you who aren't familiar with Interpol yet: skip reading this review and simply get a copy of their 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights. It's one of this decade's best alternative albums and, really, a sort of time capsule for the period immediately following the September 11 attacks. (Note: if you're a Joy Division fan, ignore the claims that Interpol sounds "just like them" -- instead, expect something more akin to Ian Curtis fronting a "shoegaze"-influenced outfit with arena aspirations.)\nNow, for fans, your reaction to Our Love To Admire is going to depend on what you thought of 2004's Antics. If you liked Antics, or were introduced to Interpol via Antics, Our Love is going to seem rather monochrome and dull. However, if you were disappointed by Antics, Our Love will seem like a return to Interpol's Bright Lights form (if not quite as good).\nOur Love resurrects Bright Lights' chilly, expansive sound -- if anything, Our Love, rather than Antics, seems like the immediate follow-up to Interpol's debut. No upbeat "Slow Hands" here -- the darkness is back, and it feels good (or, that is, feels bad in a good way). Our Love is also more consistent than Antics, and the lyrics, while opaque as usual, hold none of that album's notorious clunkers (such as the "I make money like Fred Astaire" line in the song "Take You On A Cruise," for example).\nBut Our Love never matches Antics' high points either. The album is one long, slow burn, with no songs as memorable as "Evil," "NARC" or "Slow Hands" -- much less the fantastic tracks from Bright Lights. \nNevertheless, repeated listens reveal plenty of fine moments. Besides its hooks, "No I In Threesome" is a wonderfully cheeky number about convincing a reluctant partner to, well ... guess. "Heinrich Maneuver" boogies vigorously and carries some small hints of R.E.M. "Mammoth" has absolutely towering instrumentals, which should help justify my "shoegaze" claim above. And "All Fired Up" is a great little anthem complete with a fist-pumping chant ("I'll take you on!"). \nThe rest is never bad -- just not that exciting.
(02/28/07 5:00am)
ROLLA, Mo. – A distraught graduate student claiming to have a bomb and anthrax sparked a scare early Tuesday that shut down the University of Missouri-Rolla for several hours, officials said.\nNearly two dozen people, including a faculty member and eight other students, were quarantined after a white, powdery substance was found.\nSchool officials said “possible bomb materials” were also found when the man was taken into custody. Officials described him as a graduate student who was apparently depressed and upset about his grades.\nThe incident started around 2:30 a.m. in a civil engineering building on campus.\nActing Police Chief Mark Kearse said that when police arrived, the student held up a bag and said: “This is a bomb.” He was armed with a knife and also claimed to have anthrax, Kearse said.\nPolice used a stun gun to subdue him. They also found a four-page note in which the student threatened to destroy the building, Kearse said.\n“If we had to make an assessment right now, our assessment is that this is going to be a bogus or phony situation,” said Acting Police Chief Mark Kearse.\nStill, a Fort Leonard Wood Explosive Operations Division team was investigating the possibility that a bomb could be in the building, and members of the Missouri National Guard were called to campus. A National Guard team took samples to determine if the substance was hazardous, said Lt. Col. David Boyle of the 7th Civil Support Team.\nOfficials said no one who had been exposed to the substance had shown any symptoms.\n“If it was anthrax they would have been displaying some symptoms,” said Ray Massey, ambulance director at Phelps County Regional Medical Center.\nThe identity and nationality of the student were not released, though school spokesman Lance Feyh said he was an international student. The man was decontaminated and taken to a hospital before being taken to a holding facility at the Rolla Police Department, Kearse said.\nMayor William Jenks and Kearse said the student had been distraught over his grades, which may have led to the incident. Jenks said the student “had problems and was depressed.”\nThe 5,850-student technological research and engineering school campus in south-central Missouri was shut down during the incident and classes were canceled for the day while officers investigated.\n“We have no hard evidence that there’s anything wrong in the building but we simply can’t take a chance,” Jenks said. “We’re taking a very cautious approach.”
(03/27/06 7:24am)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Mike Anderson's swarming style of defense and fast-paced play to the University of Missouri.\nAnderson was hired as Missouri's basketball coach Sunday, taking over following Quin Snyder's resignation last month.\nAnderson, who led Alabama-Birmingham to a 24-9 record and an NCAA tournament appearance this season, is the first permanent black head coach at Missouri, though Melvin Watkins, a Snyder assistant, served as interim coach after Snyder's resignation.\nAnderson also a former assistant to Nolan Richardson at Arkansas and played for Richardson at Tulsa.\nAs head coach at UAB for four years, Anderson had an 89-41 record with three NCAA tournament appearances. UAB lost to Kentucky in the first round this season.\nIn his introductory news conference, Anderson said he has already spoken with eight Missouri players. He said they are eager to experience his up-tempo, scrappy style.\n"If you ever see me in a fight with a tiger or a bear, you better help that tiger or that bear out," Anderson said. "If you watch my basketball team, that's the same mind-set. What we do is predicated on defense -- it starts, and it ends, on defense"
(10/11/05 4:19am)
ST. LOUIS -- Mike Martz is out indefinitely as coach of the St. Louis Rams with a bacterial infection of the heart.\nA specialist Monday told Martz that his condition, which kept him out of two practices last week, had worsened. The 54-year-old has been ill for more than a month and was tested for endocarditis, a bacterial infection of the lining of the heart or a heart valve.\nAfter the Rams' 37-31 loss Sunday to the Seattle Seahawks, Martz said he shouldn't have been on the sideline. St. Louis dropped to 2-3.\nRams president John Shaw said Monday that Martz will be hospitalized four to 12 days but would not speculate on the length of his absence. Shaw said he wasn't told the specific name of the illness, but was led to believe that Martz's heart valve had weakened since last week.\n"I think he was concerned he was letting down a lot of people, but also had concern about the gravity of the situation," Shaw said.\nThe antibiotics that Martz began taking on Friday didn't seem to help, Shaw said, but he didn't know if any additional procedures would be necessary. Severe cases of endocarditis can require open-heart surgery.\nAssistant head coach Joe Vitt will take over as coach. Martz told his players during a brief but emotional team meeting that he would step aside, Vitt said.\n"The team is his concern," Vitt said. "His health is our number one concern."\nMartz spoke with a raspy voice after Sunday's game but sounded optimistic about his health. Still, he said that in retrospect, he should have allowed offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild to run the show.\n"I wasn't myself this week, the game plan wasn't clear for me," Martz said. "It's over with now but I just feel what happened to me has affected this team, and that breaks my heart."\nMartz was first hospitalized Sept. 30 with what was thought to be a sinus infection. He coached two days later during a 44-24 loss to the New York Giants.\nSeahawks coach Mike Holmgren, a friend of Martz's, advised the Rams coach to be careful with his health.\n"Really, what I told Mike was -- and I put myself in the same category -- you get so caught up in this that it, at times, appears to become more than life and death," Holmgren said. "And it's not. It really isn't."\n"So, with the health problem like he seems to have, he's got to take care of it. He's got to take care of himself, his family. He's got to think of way more things than football, of winning a football game. But it's hard for us. It's hard for all of us to back away on something like that"