The 23-year-old British singer Adele was the belle of the ball Sunday night at the Grammys, where she won six awards, sweeping record, song and album of the year, James C. McKinley Jr. reported from Los Angeles.
The 23-year-old singer and songwriter, whose raw vocals and searing lyrics made "21" the best-selling album last year, captured six awards, sweeping record, song and album of the year.
NME contributor Ben Patashnik called the album "a grand, sweeping, brave record that, while not quite the reinvention they pegged it as, suggests they've got the chops to retain their relevance well into their fourth decade as a band".
Meanwhile, if McConnell can't pull through with a vote to extend the bill, the National Security Agency would lose its abilities to perform sweeping phone record collections — although it would still be allowed to access information already retrieved.
They point as precedent to the recent revelation — following the leak of a classified court order by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden — that the court, which operates in secret, had authorized the sweeping phone records collection based on what they say is a bafflingly elastic reading of the underlying statute.
Sweeping through recorded history, you can find a predilection for warfare among hunter-gatherers, herding and farming peoples, industrial and even postindustrial societies, democracies and dictatorships.
It was this provision that the N.S.A. relied on in sweeping up phone records from Verizon and, presumably, other U.S. telephone companies.
Nowhere did the President or the new law's sponsors on Capitol Hill state the blindingly obvious: that if it hadn't been for Snowden's leaks, the intelligence agencies' excesses would never have come to light, the U.S.A. Freedom Act wouldn't exist, and the N.S.A. would still be merrily sweeping up phone records and analyzing them as it saw fit.
Linear sweep voltammograms were recorded by sweeping the potential from 1.1 to 0 V vs. a normal hydrogen electrode (NHE) at 0.5 mV s−1, where the working electrode was rotated at a fixed speed of 1,500 rpm.
The move will help BMG, the music division of Bertelsmann, save overhead costs and give Mr. Davis sweeping control over two record units.
The criticism of Mr. Berlusconi, sweeping over his political record, his business dealings and his personal life, has come from across the political spectrum.
