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...lyricist for the Police, the brooding bassist used his poetic gifts to dredge up the debris of his own psyche -- and sell millions of records. After going solo in 1985, he injected jazz and politics into the polyrhythmic mix, but his worldly concerns never strayed far from the ardent diplomacy of love...
...model modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore (pop. 3.1 million) has even found an ardent fan in mainland China (pop. 1.16 billion), where officials are studying the city-state for ideas on how they can throw off Marxist economics but keep dictatorial political control...
...ardent is the press in its pursuit of new rumors that reporters have become targets of charges that they have crossed the line. Last week Lord McGregor of Durris, the chairman of the British Press Complaints Commission, defended the notion that the royals were public property, but nonetheless called some of the stories "prurient reporting." He added, "The most recent intrusive and speculative treatment by sections of the press (and indeed by broadcasters) of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales is an odious exhibition of journalists dabbling their fingers in the stuff of other people's souls...
Diana relishes being her own woman, playing the role to the hilt. She has become an ardent patron of many causes, especially involving AIDS patients, the infirm and deprived children. "I doubt if anyone in the British Isles is better at going into a ward filled with people with cancer or AIDS," says biographer Philip Ziegler. Those close to her say the princess is very savvy and streetwise and, when not in the grip of frustration or rage, well able to size up her position. "She recognizes what people want from her," says someone who has worked with...
...gorgeous, ripened voice of Lisa Stansfield, 26, embodies the romance and sexiness of soul. Her lyrics are succinct portraits of love, seduction and loss; her sound is ardent but never florid, soft but never sappy. While still barely a teen in her hometown of Rochdale, Stansfield desperately longed to join the nightclub scene of nearby Manchester, which was a bubbling kettle of soul, rock and punk sounds. "But I was underage," she says, "so I'd put tissue paper in my bra and sneak in with my older sister. Of all the music I heard, soul was the most honest...