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...arrests have been made, the city's mayor has said he suspects religious extremists of carrying out the attack. Three journalists have been killed in Bangladesh so far this year, and several more have been threatened with violence. Adding to fears that freedom of expression is under attack, Prothom Alo, a Bengali-language newspaper, has been subjected to mass protests by fundamentalists since it suggested recently that some madrasahs in the southeast were being used to train Islamic militants (a claim the madrasahs deny). The newspaper's editor, Matiur Rahman, says copies of the paper have been burned in demonstrations...
...reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with a cute quaver in the "at" when he pleads "At least please telephone" and the octave drop on that lusty "mm-mm" before...
Maats: Well, non-English speaking employees always call me Matt Hunter. [Adopts Indian accent.] Alo, ees Maht Unter dere? But my DJ name is Mazta Maatz...
...baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). Listening to his notorious rendition of Hound Dog on Milton Berle's TV show, we can hear gasps and giggles from the audience and feel the career-threatening danger of his burlesque moves, almost see his hip-level guitar wagging insolently like the first electric phallus...
Larry Ce??alo and ?? ?? ??? won all three of their ??? ??? Cliff Ruderman and T?? K??? ?? two bouts a piece...