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...again. So Damn Happy doesn't have a single great song, and it doesn't matter. Most of the album is structured to let Franklin do her trademark thing: sing about making it through heartache with her faith intact. The Queen of Soul never really did melody: like an expert surgeon who leaves the nurses to stitch up, it's a little beneath her. Instead she rises and plunges over songs like The Only Thing Missin' and Ain't No Way. It's a style the Mariah Careys of the world have copied and perverted into a circus...
...internal debate. The committee drew blood from Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. He testified that dissent about the dossier among Ministry of Defence analysts was minimal, despite knowing that two had written formal complaints. Only when these letters were going to Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly did they arrive at the committee - a sequence it judged "unhelpful and potentially misleading" - for which he apologized. Hutton resumes work again this week, first summoning bbc director general Greg Dyke and some defense officials before recalling previous witnesses for cross-examination. No one is predicting a killer...
...Rohan Gunaratna, a Singapore-based expert on al-Qaeda, the Taliban's revival spells trouble beyond the region. "Al-Qaeda is able to survive because of its link with the Taliban," says Gunaratna, arguing that a group of foreigners could not stay in Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province if the Taliban did not vouch for them. In this view, the Taliban is still harboring al-Qaeda--not, as formerly, in Afghanistan but in Pakistan. And al-Qaeda fighters may be joining with the Taliban in operations. A spokesman for Karzai insisted that Pakistanis and Arabs were part...
Last week was a rough one for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. And it wasn't just because protesters wearing Pinocchio noses greeted him when he arrived at the High Court in London to testify before the Hutton Inquiry into the apparent suicide of David Kelly--a government weapons expert and the source for a BBC report in May alleging that Blair's aides knowingly inserted false information into a dossier on Iraq's unconventional weapons. Blair gave a virtuoso performance, saying he would have had to quit if the report had been proved true. Still, a CNN/TIME poll found...
...HUTTON INQUIRY Devils In The Details By J.F.O. McALLISTER | London Important people will be dreading their mail as Lord Hutton summons witnesses to return to his inquiry next week for cross-examination about the events that led to the death of British weapons expert David Kelly - an inquiry that has also become a probe into Tony Blair's case for war. The evidence so far reveals gaps and contradictions that make some returns very likely...