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...Parental pressure, familial obligations, gender roles, dating, sex, drugs, suicide?just about every teen issue is addressed, and the book has struck a chord in India. Chat rooms are buzzing, and sales have topped 15,000 in just six weeks (making the book a best seller in India's small English-language fiction market). A Bombay-based production company bought the film rights in June...
...striking a chord usually reserved for those further to the left than Kerry has portrayed himself during the campaign, the senator issued a scathing critique of Bush’s energy policy and diplomacy...
...that the camera never looks away and Metallica never hide. Hetfield pouts. Ulrich luxuriates at a New York City auction house while one of his paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat sells for $5.5 million. Hammett is so indecisive that you wonder how he manages to pick a guitar chord. Even performance coach Towle, a middle-aged man in a series of Cosby-meets-Rorschach sweaters, throws a small fit when the subject of curtailing therapy finally arises. "Remember, these guys are our clients," says Berlinger. "And God's honest truth, they never gave us one vanity note - not a single...
...outshone by his No. 2 is one reason Kerry went to such lengths to assure that the process of selecting him was smooth and certain. It was a secret until the end, the details held fast and then leaked after the fact to strike just the right chord of total control. Kerry positioned himself as the maximum leader, the disciplined boss of a party known for chaos, and signaled that he could run a tight ship, make a crisp decision and then manage the moment. So well executed an exercise it turned out to be that even the maestros...
...their musical system, which was based on Persian concepts and in turn served as the basis of modern Western music, reflected fundamental mathematical proportions that they believed were a reflection of the order of the cosmos?the music of the spheres. Is it possible that a C-major chord sounds sweet and "right" to every human ear because it has a transcendent, mathematical perfection? As De Waart puts it, "Perhaps 'our' music, based upon organic harmonics, is much more universal than we thought...