Word: franked
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...started singing together 35 years ago at a Belfast boarding school, and later performed at their seminary in Rome. After hearing a demo tape, Nick Raphael, the managing director of Epic in the U.K., raced to sign them. "Is any one of them a potential Elvis Presley or Frank Sinatra? Probably not," he says. "Do they have the potential to be one of the world's biggest musical acts because what they do is compelling and has historical relevance? Absolutely." And they sing like angels: their powerful voices blend effortlessly to create harmonies rich with emotion...
...movie, directed by X Files creator Chris Carter and written by Carter and series producer Frank Spotnitz, Mulder and Scully are back, but so much has changed that they seem the aliens. For an obvious start, the stars are older. Anderson, 25 when the show premiered, will hit 40 next month, two days after Duchovny turns 48. In the new movie, he's bearded and wasted-looking, her profile is more hawklike; and the camera traces the lines the intervening years have written on their faces with the odd intensity of Nicholas Cage running his finger over the route...
...also met with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Berlin mayor Kalsu Wowereit, a strong Obama supporter who presented him with a statue of a bear, the city's symbol. On Friday, Obama continues his foreign trip with a stop in Paris, before embarking on a final leg to Britain...
...London High Court judge has ordered British tabloid News of the World to pay $120,000 in damages to motor-racing chief Max Mosley following a weeklong court hearing involving frank discussions of prostitution, sadomasochism and "Nazi"-fueled...
...only public address in Europe sparked a local media frenzy. Chancellor Angela Merkel reacted with "bewilderment" to the Senator's request to speak at this historically charged location and appeared concerned that approving the request would be interpreted as taking sides in the U.S. presidential race. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, for his part, welcomed the suggestion that Obama speak at a venue rendered iconic by John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, saying it was "a vital expression of German-American friendship...