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...spent his career defying any and all expectations of him. When labelled a bluegrass outsider, he married into the Carter family, country music royalty. When hooked on amphetamines and long removed from the music charts, he parlayed a prison concert into a 1968 hit LP and premiered a major network TV show. Thirty years later and with his elder statesmen status locked up, Cash’s experimentalist dogma led him towards more musical risks. “American V: A Hundred Highways” is the fifth, the latest, and the last in a decade-long partnership with Rick...
...Associated Press’ headline, “Dems must court Evangelicals.” But this isn’t so much about courting “evangelicals” as it is about ending the Democrats’ rejection of religious imagery and ideals. The Network of Spiritual Progressives (led by Rabbi Michael Lerner) more accurately paraphrased the senator’s message: “Obama insists that liberals must stop pushing religious people away and stop demanding that they leave their religious ideas ‘at the door’ when they enter into...
...missile shield over the U.S., the nation has spent $91 billion (with $58 billion more slated to be spent over the next six years) to protect the country from missile attack. But his ambitious hopes to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" have been dramatically downsized. Reagan envisioned a network of satellites, sensors and even space-based weapons capable of thwarting a massive missile strike from the Soviet Union or China. But with the Cold War's end, the scale of the threat has also been reduced to that posed by a handful of "rogue states" with the means...
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...phone operation and a promising Internet-TV venture) immediately drew a rival bid from private-equity firm Texas Pacific Group and its Asian affiliate, Newbridge Capital Group. Not only does Macquarie have a rival suitor, but the Chinese government may also fatally complicate the deal. That's because China Network Communications Group, one of China's state-owned telephone companies, has a 20% stake in PCCW and its officials are wary of the sale of an important Hong Kong asset to non-Chinese investors...