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Jagger has assembled an enviable guest-list on the album, even if the combinations do seem a little forced at times. As well as Kravitz, Pete Townshend, Wyclef Jean and Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas make appearances, while Bono contributes all of about two lines to the euphoric “Joy,” an act of ego-compression worthy of applause in itself. Despite the collaborators, however, Jagger’s inimitable persona is emblazoned across the album, in every aspect, but most particularly his literally peerless voice. Though “Joy” definitely...
...Jean-Louis Bruguiere started fighting the war on terrorism before most of us knew it had begun. In 1989, when an airliner suspiciously exploded over Africa, the French magistrate visited the scene and eventually pinned the bombing on the Libyans. He found Carlos the Jackal in 1994 and had the terrorist arrested while Carlos was sedated and waiting for an operation on his scrotum. Bruguiere helped foil Islamic radicals' plans to attack the World Cup in 1998 and Strasbourg cathedral in 2000. In the weeks after Sept. 11, while his counterparts in the U.S. and Germany were learning to pronounce...
...HAITI Whose Plot Foiled? Police blamed veterans for a failed bid to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A former colonel and an ex-soldier were arrested, while two dozen other suspects were still at large. But the opposition claimed the coup attempt was a government setup designed to discredit Aristide's opponents...
...Jean Chatzky is editor-at-large for MONEY magazine. You can send her an e-mail at moneytalk@moneymail.com
...from Montmartre A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment - and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...