Word: blasting
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...with that a bit in Sydney and it's fabulous," reports Calnin, now with De Waart at the Hong Kong Philharmonic. "So you get a more complete string picture in which the top voice is still perfectly clear, enriched by what's underneath. It's a brilliant idea." A blast of basso profundo - that's the only extra weight the maestro wants to carry in Sydney. Now to turn dream into thrilling reality...
...DIED. ZELIMKHAN YANDARBIYEV, 51, exiled separatist leader who was Chechnya's President from 1996-97; after a bomb exploded in his car as he drove home from Friday prayers with his teenage son, who was injured in the blast; in Doha, Qatar. Russia had been working to extradite the Islamic extremist for his alleged involvement in the deadly Moscow theater siege in 2002 and for alleged ties to al-Qaeda...
...Ilya Blokhin, a surgeon heading downtown to his job in a private Moscow clinic, heard what sounded like a firecracker go off on his metro train last Friday, a commuter near him muttered, "I'll be late for work." It turned out to be far worse than that. A blast ripped through the second car of a packed train at the height of the morning rush hour. Within minutes, at least 39 people were dead and 134 were injured. Wreckage and human remains were spread along 164 ft. of the tunnel. "We're taking out the dead, or what...
...control and on top of things." While Putin is still poised to win a landslide re-election next month--his approval ratings are around 80%--the mood of those who turn out to vote for him may prove to be more fatalistic than triumphant. Just after last Friday's blast, Oksana Petrova, 32, shrugged when a reporter asked her if she was now afraid of taking the metro. "Of course, I'm scared," she said. "But what we can do? We're ordinary people. We don't control our lives. It's up to them...
...Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast last week in which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There...