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...Coldplay Performance They played Talk, a fine song with an opening cribbed from Big Country, but Chris Martin's vocals were all over the place, even in the tremolo parts that he usually nails. On the plus side, Martin's all black outfit with gleaming white sneakers was a nice 20th anniversary tribute to Run DMC's Raising Hell...
...don’t listen too hard, but ultimately devoid of artistry. “Love and Communication” gets a bit closer to her roots with a downbeat arrangement backed by a guitar sounding like it came out of a 70s blues-influenced light-rock outfit. It’s pretty and all, but it doesn’t seethe or sear as Cat Power’s finest work has in the past. But then the album drifts away again. “Where Is My Love” is particularly generic, with Norah-esque jazzy arrangements...
SIGNATURE OUTFIT...
...they don't discount the possibility of a terrorist attack. "The threat's still real," says a U.S. intelligence official, "but because of this tape, does that make it any more real than it was before the tape? No." Today, the official says, al-Qaeda is not the same outfit it was on 9/11; it has morphed from a command-and-control organization into a philosophy that has "inspired cells around the world ... It's harder for them to coordinate, but it also makes them very dangerous...
When Ford became chairman seven years ago and CEO two years later--the first family member to run the outfit in 19 years--plenty of critics said that any guy named Ford, especially a granola-crunching one, was a bad choice for the job. A lot of people still think so. "Any insider is the wrong person to fix a Ford or a GM," argues a hedge-fund executive who is shorting Ford stock. "Insiders have too much of a connection to the status quo and the legacy of the company to make the tough decisions that are needed." Executives...