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...dark obscurity, David Gray has at last discovered that the sun doesn't have to go down-and he's still basking in the glow. His album White Ladder, recorded in his living room and self-released in Ireland and Britain in 1999, broke the U.S. Top 100 chart last October and is now pushing the top 30; by the beginning of January, 850,000 copies of the album had been shipped in America. That's on top of the 1.5 million the album has sold in Britain and Continental Europe. In Ireland, on the strength of almost no promotional...
Last summer Shaggy released Hotshot, a sleek confection of R.-and-B.-tinged reggae, to scant attention. But he has since pulled off a coup that few reggae artists have ever achieved. Steadily pushing his way up the pop chart, he has knocked off one blockbuster after another: Limp Bizkit, Nelly, Creed, even the Beatles. Finally, this week he passed Jennifer Lopez, making him the first reggae artist ever to top the pop charts since Shabba Ranks in 1991. His accomplishment is all the more remarkable because it's the sort of breakout that has attracted buyers from 12-year...
Another worry: it's getting hard for weaker U.S. companies to borrow. Courtis showed what he called a frightening chart depicting bond yields. In early January corporate junk bonds yielded 9 percentage points more than a 10-year Treasury bill. (In other words, lenders demanded that much more from risky borrowers.) That "spread" is higher than it has been since the U.S. banking crisis a decade...
Beat goes through his paces with the photographer, phlegmatically following his directions. "Oh, and he doesn't write screenplays either," stage-whispers Mori. It turns out Beat scribbles madly in journals over the course of a year, charting out in hieroglyphic scrawls the structure of his films. Then, in a series of meetings, he reviews the journals and explains what he wants to his staff. They chart out a script. He shoots his films sequentially, and usually takes just one shot per scene. "The movie changes as we go along," says Mori. In the film Sonatine, the actor Ren Osugi...
...child in crib No. 17 has had TB, oral thrush, chronic diarrhea, malnutrition, severe vomiting. The vial of blood reveals her real ailment, AIDS, but the disease is not listed on her chart, and her mother says she has no idea why her child is so ill. She breast-fed her for two years, but once the little girl was weaned, she could not keep solid food down. For a long time, her mother thought something was wrong with the food. Now the child is afflicted with so many symptoms that her mother had to bring her to the hospital...