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...work of intelligence agencies - apparently the same ones who told him Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction - as "even more necessary than ever before ? in an era of global terrorism." At the U.N., most diplomats were unruffled. They all know the place is bugged; Annan's predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, called it "a kind of tradition." With only about 200 security personnel, the U.N. can't compete with widget-wielding spooks. But U.N. sources tell Time that the world body is now stepping up "sweeps" of Annan's office and considering bringing in private security contractors to make...
...They had a terrible time attracting anyone [to replace Jenkins’ predecessor], because it didn’t seem that Harvard was willing to support the archive enough,” Perry said...
What they've come to expect is a more expressive conducting style than that of his sometimes stern-faced predecessor, Dutchman Edo de Waart. Gelmetti's performance of Ravel's Bol?ro two years ago has already passed into Sydney folklore. Loose of hip, his stomach thrust forward, he seemed to coax Ravel's rhapsodic wave out of his shoulders. Seeing him perform the same piece with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra a year before, the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel went so far as to say, "Gelmetti conducts with his stomach." Whatever the case, his expansive enjoyment of the music is infectious...
...there’s Barbershop 2 and countless other Hollywood vehicles of every stripe, which Mitchell has to watch in ever-growing numbers. It was widely speculated that Maslin, his predecessor at the Times, retired in part because of burnout from seeing too many shoddy films...
Banner’s sequel embodies the redemptive themes of its predecessor. At times MTA2’s spiteful rhymes and often tuneless tunes uncomfortably evoke thoughts of slavery—functional, slow and relentless like dirges, with scarred chants serving as choruses. There’s little time for bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp?...