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...equally distinctive talent, reveals herself in the lyrics she performs. Now both have terrific new CDs that showcase their strengths. With just one song, Respect, Franklin introduced feminism to popular music, but she has also sung about lesser things convincingly - like riding on a freeway of love in a pink Cadillac and being drawn through destiny to duet partner George Michael. She can basically do anything, and So Damn Happy, Franklin's first album in five years, proves the point again. So Damn Happy doesn't have a single great song, and it doesn't matter. Most of the album...
...Last week, police raided Chimatpada, a maze of slum houses, cheap restaurants and noisy industrial workshops, bursting into the pink-walled shanty where the Hanifs lived. Inside, says chief investigator Rakesh Maria, they found 22 detonators, 235 gelatin sticks, 14 timing devices, wires and soldering equipment. As the authorities tell it, the Hanifs collaborated with a 26-year-old embroiderer, Arshat Ansari, to pull off the Aug. 25 bombings that killed 52 and injured 175 in Bombay. While Ansari allegedly placed his bomb in a taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded jewelry market, police say the Hanifs had packed explosives...
...Officers. Forty-seven of the nation's 50 governors are staring at budget shortfalls this fiscal year totaling $80 billion, forcing them to slash popular programs or raise taxes. None so far is threatened with being ousted by a recall like the one Davis faces. But for many a pink slip might be a blessing in disguise. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who's been in the pressure cooker seven years, likes to give this advice to new governors, only half jokingly: "demand a recount and hope you've lost." Four states where the post is losing its luster...
...reality was Rebecca Matthias, president of Mothers Work, who says she didn't buy a single maternity outfit when she was expecting her first child in 1981. "The industry was run by men," says Matthias, whose company claims to be the largest maternitywear retailer in the world. "Everything was pink flowers, frilly, really inexpensive. I couldn't wear that to work. The good-quality clothes didn't exist, and they didn't have clothes to wear out, because you were expected to just stay at home." She started a tiny catalog business selling suits made by a New Hampshire sample...
Though the object of a manhunt, Hambali managed to stay on the loose for almost a year. He probably chose to live in the cream-and-pink apartment in Ayutthaya precisely because of the anonymity it offered. Oh and other residents say he rarely left the place, never did laundry and ventured to the local 7-Eleven only at night. "He kept to himself," she says...