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Jaguar spent no less effort improving the six-speed transmission. There are three modes: automatic, sport and manual (using the shift paddles). In manual, according to Jaguar, the gears respond to the driver's touch in 600 milliseconds, and the sensation is pure greased lightning. Sport mode feels silky smooth too. Overall, the car isn't as lithe or fun to drive as a Porsche 911 with a manual stick shift. But Jaguar has concluded that its core market is drivers who want a balance of performance and luxury, and in that respect the XKR hits its mark...
That is an incredible and somewhat ironic financial feat for the man known as the Boss, a Freehold, N.J., native who learned how to play the guitar by listening to the radio. In the eleven years since he first gained national attention, the bus-driver's son and blue-collar rock poet who sings of hard times, dying towns and stubborn dreams has become much more than a legendary performer. Bruce Springsteen, 37, is one of the most potent money-making machines in the history of entertainment. His earnings possibly eclipse even Michael Jackson's income, which derives from records...
Dusk was falling as the four Sikhs climbed into the crowded bus near the small town of Tanda. They wore rough shawls against the winter cold. The bus was hardly under way when the four pulled automatic weapons from beneath their garments and forced the Hindu driver to turn onto a lonely country road. There the gunmen ordered all Sikh men?identifiable by their turbans and beards?Muslims and women to get off the bus. They commanded the remaining 33 passengers, most of them Hindu, to shout the praises of a Sikh terrorist recently killed in a police shoot...
While serving in the Congo in 1960, at the beginning of his foreign service career, Frank Carlucci was a passenger in a car that struck and killed a bicyclist. The driver took off, leaving Carlucci facing an angry crowd. There was some pushing and shoving, and before he could be rescued, Carlucci ended up with a knife in his back. Thus when he was appointed last week as President Reagan's new National Security Adviser, Carlucci became the first man to have been stabbed in the back even before he assumed that highly exposed post...
...Queen ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ IŅARRITU, Babel PAUL GREENGRASS, United 93 MARTIN SCORSESE, The Departed MARTIN SCORSESE Surely this is the year the six-time nominee for Best Director gets the prize he has so richly deserved for more than three decades. MARTIN SCORSESE We're talking Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York. So just give him the Oscar already! MEL GIBSON He's flawed, but Apocalypto was still one of the year's best foreign-language films made by an aging action star. BEST ACTOR LEONARDO DICAPRIO, Blood Diamond RYAN GOSLING, Half Nelson PETER...