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...Franz Ferdinand...
...Franz Ferdinand begin many of their songs with a nod to their influences before heading off towards parts unknown. “Come on Home” starts with a shimmering guitar line on loan from Blondie, then grooves away unabashedly with some positively Keatsian lyrical work from Kapranos: “Moonlight falls upon your perfect skin / Falls, and you draw back again...
...Bali. Sandy was one of the first female correspondents we sent into the field. In 1982, she came to Asia?which she would make her home?and the next year, she accompanied exiled dissident Benigno Aquino Jr. on his fateful return to the Philippines, then ruled by his archenemy, Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino was gunned down when he left the plane. Sandy placed her tape recorder against a plane window, and its record of gunshots and shouting?and her reporting?would cast doubt on Marcos' contention that a lone gunman had killed his rival. By the time Sandy left the magazine...
...DIED. SALVADOR LAUREL, 75, former Philippine Vice President who helped topple Ferdinand Marcos by deciding not to run for the presidency in 1986, which would have split the opposition challenge to the strongman; in San Francisco. Instead, Laurel, who came from a prominent political clan, became Corazon Aquino's running mate. After Marcos tried to rig the elections and was forced into exile, Laurel served as Aquino's Vice President from...
...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...