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...After three hits (the third was Doc Pomus? "Plain Jane"), Darin could have been pegged as a smarter Bronx version of Frankie Avalon and other Philadelphia Italians Clark was promoting; or maybe a less handsome relative of teen throb James Darren. But Bobby had two things they didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine...
...economic news is all it takes to rouse Wall Streeters from their morbid agnosticism, the Dow would have hit 36,000 back in March. These days, good news from Main Street is just plain good news. And Tuesday actually cooperated, if only in the wan, incremental proportions that is the best good news we get these days...
...majority of the more than 300,000 tourists per year come to cruise the scenic Mekong, visit World Heritage Site Luang Prabang or explore the mysterious Plain of Jars. But increasingly they are drawn because they have heard, from other kids on the Asian travel circuit, that drugs in Laos are plentiful and cheap, and as long as you don't do anything too stupid, the cops leave you alone to get loaded in peace. Towns such as Vang Viang and Muang Sing, in the north, have developed expat communities of late teens and twentysomethings who come intending to stay...
...returned to the upper-caste village and took her revenge. It is said she presided over a massacre there of 22 men. They made a movie about her wild, romantic youth - Devi seen with rifle slung across her back, galloping hell for leather across the Gangetic plain...
...process, the latest round of violence is reminder that violence continues to eclipse dialogue in the relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. Indeed, both sides appear inclined to respond to diplomatic peace initiatives only as a way of outflanking their adversary in the battle for international public opinion. It is plain that neither side, right now, believes that peace is possible - or at least possible at an acceptable price. But the current stalemate is inherently unstable, and particularly vulnerable to the provocations of extremists. And that means the cycle of violence, which had at least slowed in recent months as both...