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(CBS) With each piece of news released by Lou Reed and Metallica, the idea of what their collaboration will sound like remains opaque. (Here’s a guess: It’ll sound like Metallica with Lou Reed singing/talking.) In any event, the collaborators released the album cover art for 구례출장업소 their album “Lulu” on Sept. 1. It looks like something Reed would put out on his own. On the Lou Reed/Metallica website, five song titles are listed. The names: “Frustration,” “Junior Dad,” “Little Dog,” “Mistress Dread” and “Pumping Blood.” Make of that what you will. For those who need further explanation, Reed and Metallica have recorded songs written by Reed based on stories by Frank Wedekind. In the words of Rolling Stone’s David Fricke, the songs sound like “a raging union of [Reed’s] 1973 noir classic, ‘Berlin’ and Metallica’s ’86 crusher, ‘Master of Puppets.'” Hey, why not? We’re looking forward to it. The album will be released on Nov. 1 in North America and Oct. 31 in the rest of the...

The U.S. and its NATO allies last week set a goal of starting to transfer control of Afghanistan to the central government by the end of the year, and President Obama has said U.S. troops must start leaving in 2011. But the slow pace of progress makes it less likely Obama can meet these tight deadlines, and it’s not clear if he can buy more time: He has struggled to persuade Congress to commit troops based on the current schedule. The expanded U.S. campaign began in late winter in the small farming hamlets of Marjah, in Helmand Province, and has advanced more slowly than expected, officials said. CBSNews.com Special Report: 수원출장만남 Afghanistan Now U.S. and NATO troops face a much more formidable task: securing Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban and the area from which al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, has described the campaign in Afghanistan’s south as a slowly rising tide that will require time and patience. He and other military officials also have warned of an inevitable rise in casualties. “I think we’ve been very clear for months now that this was going to be a very difficult fight in the south, and tried to set expectations, as tragic as it is, for these losses,” Adm. Mike Mullen, Obama’s top military adviser and head of the...