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Doug Ventura will never forget that fall day in 1981. He and two other police officers from Montgomery County, Maryland, were trying to arrest a man strung out on angel dust when the suspect started kicking Ventura in the side and face, again and again and again. It took four operations for doctors to repair Ventura's fractured spine. But the pain never really went away. It was as if someone had forgotten to turn off a switch somewhere deep inside his body...
...have every right, according to the Supreme Court, to believe that you will one day be an angel, a bull in Wyoming or the captain of the Starship Hale-Bopp. In 1944 the court ruled that the free exercise of religion "embraces the right to maintain theories of life and of death and of the hereafter which are rank heresy to followers of the orthodox faiths." By that definition, just about anything goes. In the Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton lists more than 2,100 religions. Herewith, a few of the more unorthodox ones--all of which...
...sound of Enya. The anthemic finale, There Is a Reason, begins in a string-quartet drone and escalates to a wilderness cry for salvation. These are songs in the past tense--love mourned, pain savored, from beyond the grave. Or from heaven: Krauss has the voice of a lost angel, beckoning you into the beyond...
...speaker, of course, is Frank Sinatra, introducing Angel Eyes on the forthcoming CD Live in Australia, 1959. The vintage is important: this isn't the coarse, harder-swinging Sinatra of the '60s or the performer of more recent decades who increasingly barked and bit his way through songs. Those Sinatras already have live albums. Here, for the first time on an official release, is Sinatra in front of an audience at close to his mid-'50s prime, the voice still lithe, graceful and burnished--and dubious hits like My Way yet to be written...
...unfortunate. The arrest took place less than two weeks before Clinton is to send his annual report to Congress certifying Mexico's commitment to the antidrug effort. While Clinton will not decertify Mexico, the news undercuts his claim that antidrug cooperation has improved under Zedillo. Mexican Foreign Minister Jose Angel Gurria, visiting Washington last week, was abruptly summoned to the White House for a reprimand...