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...desert nomad wandering through the desolate, inhospitable Nullarbor Plain of south-central Australia. First released down under in 1999, The Captain is a collection of intense, complex and stirring songs filled with warm, personal tales of the artist's attempts to understand life's unresolved tensions. Kasey Chambers' ballad-driven album challenges modern country music with a potent mix of acoustic and electric guitars, fiddle passages and hard-driven roots-rock percussion...
...faster, while their engines were made more powerful. To top it off, they were painted with flames, stripes and other graphics. Lowriders came into the picture later and they were even more painstakingly ornamented, with multiple hues, elaborate upholstery and decorative effects. These cars were made to be driven slowly, so all their details could be admired. For the mostly Latino enthusiasts who made them, the cars represented their pride and cultural awareness...
...Michael J. Fox, who's fighting Parkinson's disease, ABC's city-hall sitcom Spin City added bad boy Charlie Sheen. On NBC's Law & Order, Dianne Wiest takes over from Steven Hill, who was the show's savvy, world-weary district attorney for 10 years. Law & Order, driven more by taut crime tales than characters, has gradually jettisoned its original cast and flourished ("This sounds arrogant," says executive producer Arthur Penn, "but we don't worry about it"). And series like NYPD Blue have thrived with past additions. But for every Bobby Simone, there's a cousin Oliver...
...Robert Redford returns to his chair behind the camera and upholds his hard-earned reputation for translating strong, character-driven stories to the silver screen. His directing style is both simplistic and grand, utilizing an arsenal of sweeping camera angles to capture truly majestic shots. Redford also plays around with color schemes to create different moods throughout the film-the warm colors of the golf course convey a sense of oblivious joy, the blackness of nightfall reflects Junuh's inner turmoil and Bagger's emergence from the dark woods creates a sense of mystery. Through it all, Redford instills...
...leadership," says Ignatius, who was the Wall Street Journal's bureau chief in Beijing and Moscow as well as business editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. "I hope to build on that, continuing to liven up the magazine; see it become edgier, wittier, more personality driven, more interactive." He will get help from an import of sorts. After two years in New York City as a writer in TIME's Business section, Karl Taro Greenfeld will become Ignatius' deputy. Says Greenfeld, who was born in Japan: "I hope to translate onto the page the dynamism and exuberance that...