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...days later, the BBC confirms that he was the source for the devastating story after all. The suicide last week of Dr. David Kelly, an advisor to the Ministry of Defense on biological and chemical weapons, inserted a human tragedy into the already bitter fight over whether Tony Blair oversold the case for war on Iraq. Kelly had visited Iraq nearly 40 times, and contributed to the dossier Blair released last September that argued Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was trying to get more. Blair's approval ratings have been floundering since BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan reported that...
...Almost every great male icon of the art - Crosby, Sinatra, Torm?, Bennett - takes from Astaire," writes Steve Schwartz on Classical Net. "The male pop singer B.F. (before Fred) sounded something like an Irish tenor. ... The limitations of Astaire's voice forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire...
...Europe's cowboys." In a rule-bound world, they have come to symbolize "a special sense of freedom" and "this special talent of dying for friendship and love. Everyone wants to be a gypsy for a day." At a time when music and concertgoing can seem over-orchestrated and oversold, gypsy bands offer a glimpse of life on the edge. "It's not just what they do on stage, but what they do afterward," says The Rough Guide's Broughton. Michel Winter, Taraf's manager and translator, agrees: "They are not backstage musicians. Music is their life." All 13 members...
...watched the show alongside Dunn. When it was finished, he turned to his father and said, “You oversold that...
...Stocks may be oversold, they may not be, but what?s not likely to be oversold at this point is the sellers. If Monday was the bottom, what was the occasion? No noose tightened around Osama bin Laden over the weekend; the U.S. military action, though slowly taking shape, certainly has yet to provide its greatest degree of uncertainty. If investors are trickling back into stocks, the hesitance with which they?re doing it suggests an extreme vulnerability to another shock, another stab of depression. The possibilities, of course, are endless...