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...With reporting by Robert Horn / Bangkok
When the good news broke, Richard Phillips' ship, the Maersk Alabama, blew its horn three times in celebration from where it was docked in the Kenyan port of Mombasa. The crew also set off a red flare and unfurled a huge American flag at the top of the boat. Phillips, the Alabama's captain, had been rescued after nearly five days of captivity in a rescue operation in which three of the four Somali pirates holding him on a lifeboat were killed. The fourth was captured...
...have had a chance to get to know each other - virtually, that is. In addition to their audition, each winner posted an introductory video. Dressed in a kimono, Maki Takafuji, who lives in Kyoto, Japan, plays a brief marimba solo and talks about her music education. Jim Moffat, a horn player who works in technology marketing in the U.K., introduces himself with London Bridge in the background. Nina Perlove, a flutist from Cincinnati, Ohio, begins her video aspirationally, by playing the song "New York, New York." David France, a violinist who teaches at the Bermuda School of Music, greets viewers...
...family's investments, but, apart from that, the minister doesn't have much of a proven track record in economic issues. "Mr Guttenberg's biggest challenge is how to develop concepts to deal with the recession. Up until now, the Economics Ministry has failed to do this," Gustav Horn, the director of Duesseldorf's Macroeconomic Policy Institute says. "Mr Guttenberg is a good PR man - he's not an economic policy expert. The minister will have to decide what to do with the ongoing economic crisis and he's bound to come under growing pressure to introduce another fiscal stimulus...
...sweetness. And despite the overall softness, Mirah still infuses her mellow songstress sound with the more experimental. “Country Of the Future” is a trippy invitation to dance set to a carnival beat, and “The Forest” has a drum and horn-filled ending that lends it a satisfying hard edge. The globally-minded elements put her in the company of fellow folk-rocker Zach Condon of Beirut: tasteful sampling from a wide range of musical influences without ever seeming like world-music kitsch. “(a)spera” ends...