At first the ravenous animals were startled and terrified at the change—at the cessation of movement. They shrank alarmedly back […]

Their sound is hard to miss: wedged between the most recent hyperpop offerings from Morning Musume Inc. and its subsidiaries and the prepubescent Arashi, it's not hard to pluck out Love Psychedelico's fuzzy guitar riffs and curdling organ passages out of the para-para fare that clogs the charts.

[…] for three years he had worked in the stinking labyrinth of the Mandalay bazaars, clerking for the rice merchants and sometimes stealing.

Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.