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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...
Nonetheless, the Schroeders do feel that the families of any future recipients should be given a clearer idea of both what to expect and what will be expected of them. Particularly important, says Mel, is that implant candidates discuss with their families in advance what actions to take if disabling complications occur and the patient's quality of life becomes marginal. Says he: "We thought it was going to be either yes or no. That he was either going to live or die." No one counted on a state of existence somewhere in between. --By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Barbara...
...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...