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...interesting thing about Madvillain is that they are clearly having a blast chilling with their friends and occasionally recording. In contrast, College Dropout, for all its wit and creativity, often seems put on, a show to replace J-Hova in America’s hearts and minds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...RESIGNED. MA FUCAI, 57, as president of China National Petroleum Corp., the country's largest oil-and-gas producer; after assuming personal responsibility for a gas blast in Chongqing last December; in Beijing. The explosion, which released a toxic cloud of hydrogen sulfide that killed 243 people and forced the evacuation of 60,000 villagers, was blamed on insufficient use of drilling fluids and on the removal of crucial safety equipment. Ma, whose rank in the Chinese bureaucracy was equivalent to a minister in the central government, offered to quit several times before his resignation was accepted by the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...Lions extended their lead in the next inning with a Marrisa Marconi home run. The three-RBI blast put the lead at 4-0, where it would stay for good...

Author: By Ryan M. Donovan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Loses Way in New York | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...flip-flops drags on, voters can run a consistency check of their own. Kerry's team will blast Bush for reversing himself on steel tariffs and then charge that he is too stubborn to change. The Bush machine will paint Kerry as an unreconstructed Massachusetts liberal, and then if he claims to be a centrist by citing his past statements challenging affirmative action and teacher tenure and promoting free trade, he'll be back in the Waffle House. But maybe voters won't care much. The only perfectly consistent man, Aldous Huxley mordantly noted, is a dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The War Of The Flip Flops | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...demanded "blood for blood!" and "destruction for destruction!" Days after recording the message, Fakhet and five or six self-styled mujahedin gathered in a circle in the Leganés flat and set off an estimated 20-kg charge of Goma 2 Eco dynamite, atomizing themselves. Officials believe that blast, which also killed an antiterror policeman, eliminated most of the "material authors" of the train bombings who were still at large. But no one in Europe is resting easy. For though the tape may have been Fakhet's final testament, it's hardly the last we'll hear from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror's Tracks | 4/11/2004 | See Source »

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