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Jackson also plays well with others. There's a splendid duet with Judith Hill on "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" that's both a call-and-response act of communion and a little contest over who can show more soul. He urges his lead guitarist, the petite, blond Orianthi Panagaris, to release all the wildness her fingers can express. He's determined to get the best from everyone, and to think the best of them. Near the end, just before a powerful rendition of "Man in the Mirror," he thanks members of his family: "Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Tito...
...September 2001, activating several obscure statutes, mostly related to calling up the armed forces. And although he proclaimed Hurricane Katrina an "incident of national significance," thus enacting a disaster-response plan headed by then Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, he did not invoke any powers under the National Emergency Act. This is common practice; natural disasters are usually declared state emergencies by the acting governor, who then requests federal aid. (See a bin Laden family photo album...
...This kind of behavior doesn't fit into neoclassical economic models, which assume that human beings are rational agents who act in their own best interests. In the real world, human beings are human beings. Sometimes we're too dumb to know our own best interests. Sometimes we're too lazy to slog through the forms to figure out our own best interests. Often we're conformists; we assume the default must be the default because that's what most people do, and we're desperate not to be social deviants...
...reconcile myself to the truth about my father," writes Omar. "I know now that since the first day of the first battle against the Soviets in Afghanistan, my father has been killing other humans. I often wonder if my father has killed so many times that the act of killing no longer brings him pleasure or pain. I am nothing like my father. While he prays for war, I pray for peace." (Read "Eight Years After 9/11: Why Osama bin Laden Failed...
...Shearer, the chief constable of the Dumfries and Galloway police, issued a statement Monday saying that Libya would continue to be at the center of the investigation. He said investigators were basing their work on the premise established during al-Megrahi's trial that he "acted in furtherance of the Libyan intelligence service and did not act alone...