Word: clearers
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There may be a variety of musical reasons for the current Springsteen ascendancy. The new songs are sharper, neater, more carefully formed than in the past. His voice is clearer, and it is brought further up front in the recording mix. On his rock videos, he shows enough charisma to burn out the entire Brat Pack, while fueling endless idle speculation about a future in Hollywood. In a half-decade full of switchback curves and turning points, however, the starting line may have been a moment when Springsteen opened Joe Klein's luminous 1980 biography of Woody Guthrie. Nebraska...
...Ahmadinejad's smiling face a stealth campaign by Iran's conservative ruling ayatullahs to take the presidency, denying it even to Rafsanjani, who has his fair share of hard-line credentials but has been talking of accommodation with the West. Ahmadinejad's bona fides are clearer: he is a member of the basij, a paramilitary force of Islamic militants. A message on his website reads, "In the name of God, I am proud to have been a basij teacher and pray to God that I continue...
Zelnick acknowledges that that's a minority view in the news business. What most journalists are trying to take away from the debacle is a clearer sense of how best to report the news. It appears that some lessons, basic as they might be, need to be relearned. As a chastened Whitaker told TIME, "You have to be prepared to defend the accuracy of everything that appears in the magazine--no matter how short." --With reporting by Sean Gregory and Barbara Kiviat/New York and John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...gets better all the time. But there is a wow factor to the Xbox 360 because it's the first console for which all the games will be in high definition, wide screen, with Dolby 5.1 surround sound. It's like putting on a pair of glasses: everything is clearer and sharper and more vivid...
...scope of the ring's activities became clearer in court actions on both coasts. In San Francisco, a federal grand jury produced a new and more specific indictment against Jerry Whitworth, 46, a retired Navy chief radioman, who allegedly supplied the most valuable information. In Norfolk, Va., Arthur Walker, 50, was found guilty of conspiring with his brother John to sell secrets to the Soviets. John Walker, 48, also a former Navy chief radioman and the alleged ringleader, is scheduled to go on trial for espionage in Baltimore on Oct. 28. John's son, Michael, 22, a former Navy seaman...