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...good reasons to get a Power Vision plan, such as streaming Sirius radio and Cartoon Network video clips on demand, but this means you have to spend a lot of money every month just to access to the music store. If the goal of any wireless music store is instant gratification, the impulse buy, why does Sprint make you plan ahead with special service? That, and not the high-but-conceivable $2.50 song price, could hurt the store, and frustrate customers who are, according to JD Power & Associates, already on the fence about the carrier...
...sequence so enthused the audience that they begin clapping to his singular beat. To conclude their set, the Lowkeys sang Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacey’s Mom,” which, judging from the crowd’s response, is a reliable instant crowd pleaser. Their short skits enacting the lyrics of the song made it an unforgettable conclusion. After intermission, the all-male Harvard Din & Tonics took the stage; the concert was named for their standard sartorial choice, this time seen in their socks. The choice, combined with their traditional white...
...were not ready. ''For a peace agreement,'' he told them, ''the people will support us.'' But not all the people. Both men are dangerously flanked by extremists. Muslim fundamentalists and other militant factions have vowed to break any deal that delivers less than an independent Palestinian state now, this instant. Fanatical settlers and other right-wing Jews swear never to give up one inch of the West Bank soil that is part of what they call Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. The pressure from enemies only complicates an already knotty negotiation. When the two were alone...
...Somalia, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh . . . The list of conflicts went on and on, like a vicious geography lesson. The euphoria that had attended the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of communism and the end of the cold war had some seers announcing that amid instant global communications, the ''end of history'' had arrived in the triumph of free-market democracy. But the brilliant moment faded, and left a sinister aftermath. The shadow was evident last week in Russia, where the followers of the fascistically minded Vladimir Zhirinovsky unexpectedly won 23% of the popular vote...
...violent death came to Kala Dhaka, in spades. A 7.6-magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas. Entire villages were devastated; in an instant, stone houses turned into burial mounds. The Indus river, flowing at the bottom of the valleys, recalls one tribal elder, Mohammed Said, "looked like water boiling inside a tea kettle...