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...less straight on. She captures the sweet nostalgia of the track, giving it a particularly wistful feminine bent. Not so Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold”—this slightly mournful folk song she warps into a blistering Valkyrie ride atop distorted guitars and multi-layered wailing vocals. At this point one starts to lose the supposed thread of the album—“Heart of Gold” is no more obviously about women, or men, than, say, “I still haven’t found what...
...Friday afternoon The President traveled to New York, visiting rescue workers at the disaster site. "Thank you for your hard work, thank you for making the nation proud," the President told cheering workers. He perched atop a felled firetruck, exhorting workers with the help of a bullhorn...
...Four (NBC) showed a test pattern as did Three (ABC). Obviously a cable problem. By the time I passed 13 again, video as well as audio was gone. I found kids' programming on 21 out of New Jersey, and went up to finish my work, never suspecting that transmitters atop the Trade Center had been knocked out, along with human life, by the terrorists...
...from a silver ring through each animal's right nostril. The camels crowd together as the starter raises his starting stick, but before he can drop it, a huge cheer sends the camels lurching forward in one heaving mass. Their long legs kick forward, riders bobbing to and fro atop 60 dancing humps. The race comprises two laps of Timia's valley floor - less than 4 miles in total. Adam comes in second to last, and finds a group of sweating men arguing over which of them finished first. The camels buck and bray, feisty as ever...
...attitude won't be enough to down Nike. Fireman's longtime rival Phil Knight still sits atop a company that commands a market share more than triple Reebok's. And his troops declare that they turned down deals with the NFL and NBA because the licensing business has never been--and never will be--profitable. Instead, Nike's path to the future has shifted from building brand awareness (it hardly needs that now) to gaining a stronger foothold in growth markets like soccer and golf. Adam Helfant, Nike's global sports marketing director, estimates that $50 million in annual revenues...