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...leader of al-Qaeda, who was captured in Pakistan on March 1, has been questioned extensively about his relationship with Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers. But his U.S. interrogators have also grilled him about another figure of much concern to Washington: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the maverick Pakistani scientist who has been called the father of the Islamic Bomb. U.S. intelligence, according to one official, has information that the al-Qaeda man and the nuclear scientist had connections with the same safe-house operator and may have crossed paths. They were "reported to be at the same place...
...mother wouldn't catch on to her pop career), the onetime aspiring concert pianist and self-described "diva" had only one hit single--I Loves You Porgy in 1959--but gained a following in the U.S. and Europe for her alternately smooth and gravelly tones, majestic stage presence and maverick opinions. Bristling at mainstream pop-music labels, Simone called her music "black classical" and embraced African folk, gospel, jazz and show tunes. An influential voice in the civil rights movement--she wrote Mississippi Goddam, a bitter response to the murder of Medgar Evers and a church bombing, and the anthem...
...with his gurgling attempts at language. Such unexpected images are jarring in a country where censors aim never to show China's ugly side. Yet, even though "underground" films are banned on the mainland, they are being made. The state media is even unwittingly contributing to the growth of maverick documentaries. In recent years, unofficial Chinese films have been made about vagrant children, migrant workers, homosexuals and corrupt village officials. Many were produced by frustrated filmmakers like Chen, using technical savvy acquired while working for mainland media outlets, sometimes even with equipment borrowed from the state...
...dominant screen language. But the movies had to talk. Thomas Edison thought so. He and his assistant W.K.L. Dickson had devised a talking-movie machine as early as 1889. In the early '20s short sound films appeared featuring vaudeville and opera stars. These were sensible, tentative steps; now the maverick Warner brothers made a great leap of faith. Their Jazz Singer wasn't a true "talkie''; it broke free from silent-screen traditions only for brief dialogue and a few songs. Nor was the story, about a cantor's son who goes into show business, at all modern. But Jolson...
...elections. She's become the live wire connecting Indonesia's still nascent freedom of expression with the country's entrenched?and often hypocritical?moral majority, yet her popularity just keeps surging. "She's the one and only one who can survive [in the country's cutthroat music scene]," says maverick TV and music producer Arswendo Atmowiloto. "She's what the people want...