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...Glitter album, amid all the techno-pop, the coloratura vamps and intricate layers of vocals, a few songs stand out as cries from a pensive soul. In Twister, a tribute to her stylist Tonjua Twist, a suicide, Carey paints what could also be a self-portrait: "She was kind of fragile/And she had a lot to grapple with/But basically she kept it all inside.../Dear God, it's all so tragic/And I'll never have the chance to feel the closure/That I ultimately need." Carey then soars into a passage that might be a request or a requiem: "Lord...
...executive office in Bangkok's government House is a rectangular room painted a cool shade of blue. Thaksin's vast, mahogany desk sits before a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, two immense rococo urns and a cabinet of Siamese vases. His work space is clear, save for a Phillips computer and laser printer. The effect of sitting in this room, with its plush oriental carpets and quiet rush of air-conditioning, is a little like being submerged. Voices are muted. Movements seem unnaturally slow. It is as if Thaksin's aura of measured patience radiates outward, catching even his aides...
...joining the Beeb he played trumpet with the Alan Price Set, founded by the former Animals keyboardist. DIED. FANNY BRENNAN, 80, French-born American surrealist painter whose childhood was spent among the international artistic circles of 1920s Paris; in New York City. As a young artist she had her portrait drawn by Alberto Giacometti and taught Pablo Picasso how to play Chinese checkers. Her specialty was miniature still lifes, usually just a few inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s U.S. rock band that sold 35 million albums and is best known...
...FORT BRAGG: PW gives a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade, to "Ava's Man" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg. "Following up his bestselling memoir, 'All Over But the Shoutin', Bragg again creates a soulful, poignant portrait of working-class Southern life by looking deep into his own family history. This new volume recounts the life of his maternal grandfather, Charlie Bundrum, who died in 1958, one year before Rick was born...His investigations in the Appalachian foothills along the Georgia-Alabama border turn up a beloved, larger-than-life rambler who inspired backwoods legend among contemporaries, undying...
...remote, cloud-draped mountains or just across the border in Montenegro. In Foca, he does not lack support. "I am in love with him," says a woman in her 50s who refuses to give her real name. "If he is arrested, we will rise up." She gestures at a portrait of "my man," displayed on a back wall, alongside Serbian-orthodox icons of Mary, the baby Jesus and St. Sava. "He is not a war criminal," she says, gazing at Karadzic's picture. "He is a saint...