Album Alert: James Morrison

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Album: Songs For You, Truths For Me

Artist: James Morrison

Released: Last week.

Singles: “You Make It Real”

Sound: Soul glory b-sides.

Listening Time: On trains.

Highlights: “Broken Strings (with Nelly Furtado)” and “Nothing Ever Hurt Like You”

Loft965 Rating: D+

Kuwait Crime: Man forced to get naked…

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Arab Times: Kuwait Crime: Man photographed naked: Police are looking for four unidentified persons for breaking into an apartment of a Kuwaiti man in Salmiya, reports Al-Dar daily. The men reportedly forced the man to strip naked, took his pictures and escaped from the scene.

How often does this happen? Were these guys looking to blackmail the guy, or they just thought we was really hot? If they want money, they might as well just robbed him. This is fishy.

Kuwait climbs freedom of speech index…

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2007

2006

Finally, some good news. But, I have to do more research to see if it actually climbed up because it got better or because other countries have dropped down. And a note to the rest of the bloggers: being #1 in the Arab world is not really a feat.