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Avant-garde German??composer Karlheinz Stockhausen liked to say he was born on a planet near the star Sirius, and for fans of his abstract, complex music, it was a plausible theory. He made his name in the 1950s as a pioneer of electronic sound and went on to compose such big, vivid pieces as Light, a 29-hour, seven-part opera that took him 30 years to finish, and Groups, played by three separate orchestral ensembles at once. An influence on musicians from John Lennon to Björk, Stockhausen made news in 2001 for a comment suggesting that...
...addition, TIME has learned that U.S. intelligence agencies have reason to believe that five Libyan-trained terrorists?four Arabs and an East German???flew to Paris two weeks ago, apparently en route to Boston. The information was given to the FBI, which has refused to elaborate...
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