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...FRANZ FERDINAND YOU COULD HAVE IT SO MUCH BETTER From the opening chords -- played in glorious, fuzzy mono--of Franz Ferdinand's much hyped follow-up, it is clear this band has a surplus of confidence. The guitars are faster and louder, and the lyrics just as whip-smart as on its debut. You know the band is getting better because the love songs (Walk Away, Eleanor Put Your Boots On) have the courage to be pretty, while the snarling punk-disco romps (Well That Was Easy, I'm Your Villain) codify the lads' idea of losers (the dull, prudish...
...small-scale label Memphis Industries. In a hurried three weeks, “Thunder, Lighting, Strike!” transformed from a whiz-kid’s solo project to a full-band spectacle. When a booking agent arranged for The Go! Team to open for Franz Ferdinand in Sweden, Parton pulled together the current group by placing online ads and by bringing in friends and friends-of-friends. The icing went on the cake when the 22-year-old London rapper/singer known as Ninja fortuitously responded to an ad. The band gelled immediately. The Go! Team?...
When Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos fled the country on Feb. 25, 1986, First Lady Imelda was forced to leave behind the 3,000 pairs of shoes that would place her in the record books. But she wasn't traveling light: when the couple landed in Hawaii, the U.S. Customs Service confiscated Pampers boxes stuffed with jewelry, including a gold crown and three gem-encrusted tiaras (not to mention $200,000 worth of gold bullion and $1 million in Philippine pesos). And that's just what they managed to load onto the C-141 cargo plane to Hawaii: back at Malaca?ang...
...DIED. HAYDEE YORAC, 64, tenacious and incorruptible human-rights lawyer called on by three Philippine presidents to perform some of the country's most difficult assignments; in Evanston, Illinois. The daughter of a mayor from the central Philippines, Yorac spent three months in jail in 1972 during Ferdinand Marcos' oppressive rule, emerging from prison to defend victims of government-ordered brutality. Yorac later served as head of President Corazon Aquino's Human Rights Commission and the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which was charged with recovering Marcos' hidden wealth after he was exiled. Her team of young lawyers repatriated...
...Manila In 1986, when the Philippines was in turmoil, Jaime Cardinal Sin [Milestones, July 4] was a major force in guiding protests against President Ferdinand Marcos' corrupt rule. Although Marcos won a tainted election victory in early February 1986, he was ousted within weeks, and the Cardinal's candidate, challenger Corazon Aquino, took the presidential oath. In a Feb. 24, 1986, report, TIME described Sin's role...