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...actor, Bennett goes over lyrics for days--even for songs he has sung forever--repeating them until they're second nature. When the time comes to record, the words pour out with different emphases on each take. (On Cold, Cold Heart, the shift from a brisk apart to a drawn-out uhhhh-part tips the mood from disdain to misery.) The advantage is that his performances are spontaneous and deeply felt; the disadvantage is that each one exhausts him. So Bennett values focus and speed in his partners, and the fact that it took Elton John just 31 minutes...
...bets from America, where online gaming is ruled illegal. Thanks to fuzzy rules governing offshore operations, U.S. gamblers still stumped up around half the industry's $12 billion in revenue last year. Offshore sports betting - the kind marketed by BETonSPORTS - is judged illegal in the U.S. under laws originally drawn up in the '60s; sites offering casino-style virtual gaming claimed they were in the clear. But others weren't chancing it: organizers postponed an Internet gaming conference scheduled this week in Las Vegas, blaming execs' jitters over landing in the U.S. Still, not everywhere is off-limits. Gibraltar-based...
...notes does not in itself encourage underground or illegal transactions. The key words there being "in itself." The plain truth is that the €500 note facilitates money laundering and cuts the cost of doing business for crooks. That's why British gangsters with any brains will already have drawn a lesson from the mob that couldn't launder a pair of dirty socks. Next time, they'll hit a cash warehouse in France...
...There have been some studies that people come away with a deeper understanding of the subject matter and what it means to be a scientist if they undertake gently-guided hand-drawn investigations using tools unique to that sub-discipline of science...
...Hammadi's eyes brimmed with tears as he related the story. Then, he turned. Hussein's sister was being told the news. She kneeled before an older man, who was speaking softly to her, his face drawn, his eyes tortured. She cried out, "Hussein! Hussein!" in a long, shrill lament. She held her head in her hands and began to pull at her hijab while screaming out her brother's name. A young man tried to help Hussein's sister to her feet, but she couldn't bear to stand. Small children began to cry, and one little girl...