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...front of a bigger audience. When a band gets to a certain level, they've made some compromises in order to make their music more mainstream, more palatable to a broader audience. But now, if you've got a taste for Polish jazz or Estonian hip-hop, you can find something on the Web. Imagine how difficult it would be to find those communities 10 years...
...LPGA, no surprise, has a different spin. "Any characterization of Lorena Ochoa other than her being an ideal model of what makes the LPGA great is ill-informed," says David Higdon, the LPGA's communications chief. Does Higdon find the website and the Play Golf Designs concept in any way offensive? "We haven't had a chance to evaluate the site and what it's really being used for," he says...
...unveiling has been a master class in ballyhoo. A week ago, the first breathless press releases began to arrive, portending the presentation of the now famous 47-million-year-old primate fossil from Germany: "MEDIA ALERT," the notice shouted in all caps. "WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS REVEAL A REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC FIND THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING...
Scrawled on whatever material he could find, the memoirs offer valuable insight into the history and thinking of kingpins even as Mexico suffers unprecedented levels of drug-related bloodshed. Félix Gallardo, now 63 and in poor health, does not deny that he trafficked cocaine and heroin into the United States. Indeed, in one passage, he nostalgically referred to himself as one of the "old capos." However, he also pointed a finger at Mexican politicians for failing to provide for the poor, making them turn to crime. He also reiterated the point - already conceded by the Mexican government - that...
While the Obama administration seeks to find common cause with Iran on Afghanistan and repair a broken bilateral relationship along the way, rumors persist about Iran's alleged efforts to sow trouble in the west. For several years, Afghan and U.S. officials have said Iranian-made weapons, including a signature variety roadside bomb used in Iraq, are being used by the Taliban-led insurgency that has intensified in the western provinces. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in mid-2007 that "given the quantities that we're seeing, it is difficult to believe that it's associated with smuggling...