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...really exciting to see them do so well. It seems like the team has come such a long way from when we first started. We were just as nervous as the girls before they went on to perform!" Chau said...
DIED. JOHN LEWIS, 80, primary composer and musical director of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet; after a battle with prostate cancer; in New York City. Lewis joined classical sensibilities with jazz improv to create his distinct sound and insisted that the M.J.Q. perform in tuxes in an attempt to make jazz as respectable as classical music. His compositions Django and Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West have become jazz standards...
...debate over Social Security was never over the arguments. If it had been, people might have started to notice that stocks simply can’t out-perform bonds forever. If stocks did consistently offer a better return for the risk, then who in their right mind would buy anything else? Smart, self-interested investors would simply keep buying stocks and selling bonds until the gap closed and the future returns disappeared. That’s how markets are supposed to work, at least, and most economists wouldn’t bet the nest egg on their basic theories being...
...crew should have had sufficient time to perform such tasks: Armed Chinese troops didn't come aboard the plane until about a half an hour after the plane landed, some 90 minutes after the midair collision, Pentagon officials estimate. But now, with much of the gear destroyed but the crew's memories and knowledge intact, comes the next chapter. U.S. military personnel are instructed only to reveal their name, rank and serial number to interrogators, and Pentagon officials doubt the Chinese have asked for any more than that...
...half-ballerina, half-bad boy. Then he does a tricky little act: he claims to be uncertain as to how to film the lesbian scene. His two actresses are uncertain too, and they sit down with the director to discuss the angles, the actions, what they're expected to perform. Pataravarin Timkul, 23, televison star and daughter of one of Thailand's most famous actresses, is definitely nervous: she's never done a sex scene on camera. "For Thais to do a love scene with any nudity is very rare, never mind a lesbian scene," she exasperates. Canadian-Chinese actress...