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...balladeer. His spectacularly intense rendition of "I Believe," excerpted on the recent NBC special "Elvis Lives," proves that his inside the bloated body was the soul of a gospel-tinged Caruso. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of "It's Now or Never," the final detonation of pain and taunt in "Are You Lonesome Tonight?", the choir-soloist power of the hymn "He Touched Me" - his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus - these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas instead...
...Officers removed an unwanted guest from the Au Bon Pain in Holyoke Center...
...leaving that he told the officers that they were in a “contaminated area” and that the soldiers must wear their protective suits for the drive out. Picou later came down with radiation poisoning, experiencing the classic symptoms including loss of bowel control, joint pain, fatigue and thyroid failure. The Department of Veterans Affairs doctors attributed her sickness to a “change of diet” after returning from Iraq and insisted that her radiation exposure was perfectly normal. They failed to explain how her feet had grown from size seven to size nine...
...North Korea, however, he was more optimistic, insisting that unified diplomacy could force Pyongyang to renounce its nuclear ambitions, even if the same approach had failed to shift Saddam. Whether the reasons for making that distinction is North Korea's infinitely more formidable ability to defend itself by inflicting pain on its neighbors or simply the fact that South Korea and Washington's other key allies in the region are insisting on U.S. restraint, that distinction could prove to be a tough sell to an American electorate resigned, but less-than gung-ho about invading Iraq...
...During the first weeks of 2002, two dark moods entered the room, two anxieties that rattled down everybody's nerve paths, even on good days, and etched their particulars into the general disposition. To begin with, after Sept. 11, the passage of time drew off the worst of the pain, but every month or so there came a new disturbance--an orange alert, a dance-club bombing in Bali, a surface-to-air missile fired at a passenger jet--that showed us the beast still at our door. In the confrontation with Iraq, in the contested effort to build...