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Mama's Gun's final track, a mini-suite titled Green Eyes, is the album's most ambitious and accomplished song. Badu, 29, says the number is about her breakup with rapper Andre Benjamin, of the Atlanta-based group OutKast, who is the father of her three-year-old son Seven. The suite is divided into three "movements," beginning with a Holiday-esque jazz ditty ("Denial"), moving to a soul-infused second part ("Acceptance") and culminating in a cathartic final passage ("The Relapse"). The suite, which lasts 10 minutes although it never feels long, is a testament to her skill...
...vocal chords. Even on the band's slower, softer songs like the beautifully intricate "Aurora," Grohl couldn't resist pumping up the pace and the volume. Indeed, the only time Grohl stopped slashing at his guitar, he lambasted the British press for publishing rumors of the Foo Fighters' eminent breakup and for comparing them to the constantly troubled Brit-rockers Oasis. Though there was no tension immediately apparent onstage, Grohl's insistence that things had never been better for the Foo Fighters rang a little hollow in light of his seeming neglect of Mendel and Shiflett during the show...
...would not think of David Dunn (Bruce Willis) as a particularly lucky guy. He works as a humble security guard, his marriage is close to a breakup, and he can't even pick up the pretty woman sitting next to him on the train taking him home to Philadelphia after a failed job interview...
Abraham Lincoln, faced with the breakup of the Republic, suspended habeas corpus. What could the Florida Supreme Court do, when confronting a similar threat, except to tell the vote counters to keep on counting, and to count until they had found sufficient votes to cause Barbra and the rest to unpack their bags and redirect their drivers from the international terminal at LAX to Bel-Air for lunch...
...desperately to avoid that end, one by boundlessly buying new businesses and the other by ripping itself apart. These are choices that companies face all the time, by the way, and they are critical to stock-market performance. One company is AT&T, which last week announced its third breakup in 17 years. The other is GE, which unveiled its umpteenth and largest acquisition--$45 billion for defense contractor Honeywell...