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...poker game between Jodie Foster, Bach and Mahatma Gandhi. Next is the upbeat “Ant,” whose background horns make it ska-like. Although the trumpet, trombone and tuba add a nice dimension to the song, the band may have gone a little overboard near the end, finishing with rampant woodwind nonsense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 4/9/2004 | See Source »

DIED. ABU ABBAS, 56, Palestinian terrorist leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean Sea, during which American Jewish tourist Leon Klinghoffer was shot and pushed overboard in his wheelchair; while in U.S. custody at a prison outside Baghdad. Abbas, whose real name was Mohammed Abbas, had lived in the Iraqi capital under government protection in recent years, but was captured by U.S. forces after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Abbas?who learned his guerrilla tactics while fighting alongside the Viet Cong in the late 1960s?came to epitomize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...story all over Iowa in the final days: about how Kerry's boat ran into a Viet Cong ambush and hit a mine, knocking Rassmann out of the vessel. Wounded in the blast, Kerry ordered the boat to race out of the cross fire, not knowing Rassmann was overboard. Two hundred yards downriver, when he discovered that the Green Beret was missing, Kerry turned the boat around and raced back to find Rassmann, still in the water, dodging bullets. His arm bleeding, Kerry reached down from the bow of the boat and pulled him in. "John didn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: What Becomes A President Most? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...rights and allow Chinese Christians to celebrate Christmas, both of which they did last month. We should applaud and encourage experiments with local democracy, manifested chiefly (since the early 1990s) in the growth of village elections in the countryside. America’s anti-China lobby can sometimes go overboard, depicting China as the new Soviet Union (or the new “evil empire”). While the severity of Beijing’s internal repression is undeniable, the Soviet comparisons are false and misleading. American engagement with the PRC is both imperative to our national interest and vital...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Our China Chimera | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...don’t anticipate much more advertising,” Sullivan said. “We’re not one to go overboard in the way of advertising...

Author: By Megha Parekh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CSTV To Cover Greater Number of Collegiate Athletics | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

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