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...outside St. Louis is producing 2,000 kits monthly, and will soon increase production. McPeak says the biggest problem is that intelligence has not kept pace with the precision of the system. Too often JDAMs hit the right coordinates but the wrong targets. That happened in the system's debut during the 1999 Kosovo campaign, when a B-2 dropped three JDAMs on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. The U.S. bombed the site thinking it was a Yugoslav military office building. Similar debacles have occurred in Afghanistan, where a JDAM, apparently loaded with improper coordinates, last October missed its target...
...cast an immense shadow. His short masterpiece has spawned an endless stream of literary guides, dramatizations, even CDs such as Heart of Darkness by the aptly named Conrad Herwig Quintet. So it's no surprise to find novelist Daniel Mason also falling under Conrad's intoxicating spell. Mason's debut novel The Piano Tuner features an array of elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous journey into the remote reaches of the empire. In this case, the voyager is a Brit named Edgar...
Ritter now has two albums to his name: a self-titled debut and his 2002 release Golden Age of Radio, which consists of 12 sparsely-arranged songs whose central instrument is Ritter’s acoustic guitar. How is he enjoying touring? “It’s the perfect job,” he says, and there are “bigger and better things to come...
...only have they produced a brace of rappers outrageously talented enough to redeem a near-moribund genre—in RJD2, they have proved that they don’t even need a rapper to do it. The beats and cuts on RJD2’s debut solo album, Deadringer, are as fresh as they come, neither burdened with artistic pretension nor simply catering to the dance floor...
...dressed. But the tenor of the evening was intimate. Sound levels were low and sympathetic, and Adams played alone—alternately on an acoustic guitar, a grand piano and a resonator guitar—with limited live strings accompaniment. He played a good number of selections from his debut solo album Heartbreaker, including “My Winding Wheel,” “Sweet Lil’ Gal (21st/3rd)”, “Call Me On Your Way Back Home” and a rollicking version of “When You?...