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...season in hell. Indeed, a spate of events in the past two weeks seemed to argue that no one and no place was immune, not a respected schoolteacher living in a small town in Texas, not even the father of a megastar athlete driving a car down the highway...
...Wish" also brings in the pounding piano and organ that are helping out never groups such as the Black Crowes. Of course, veterans such as Richards knew the benefits of these soulful additions all along. The last track, "Key to the Highway," gives them a lot more playing time in a classical 8-bar blues ramble. The electric guitar stays quiet while Richards' voice roams along with the sure-footed downbeats...
...Eileen" and "Wicked As It Seems" are both available on Richards' album, "Main Offender." Nevertheless, the "Eileen" supersingle is definitely worth buying in its own right if only for the "Gimme Shelter" Armageddon and "Key to the Highway." A diverse combination of songs like these doesn't come by too often for under ten bucks...
...alarming 25% from the year before. That is still only a tiny fraction of the 1.6 million annual car thefts, but when combined with other incidents in which cars have become both weapons and targets -- the drive-by shootings in Washington or the cinder blocks dropped off highway overpasses in Detroit -- it leaves an impression of rolling danger that fuels a kind of hysteria. "Our agents say there's real fear on the streets," says Howard Apple, head of the FBI's interstate theft unit. "Some crimes you can avoid by avoiding high-crime areas, but people are getting carjacked...
...into the trunk. The detective broke away and leaped over the railing of the police parking structure, falling one story below as the carjackers fired at him. He wasn't hit, but he suffered lacerations to his forehead in the fall. Says Randy Ballin, head of the California Highway Patrol's Los Angeles auto-theft unit, who investigated the case: "These people don't care who you are. They don't care that you are a cop and may be armed. They have nothing to lose. The criminal-justice system is not a deterrent. It's a minor inconvenience...