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...ignoring the chorale he composed for the rebel peasants' march in Gillo Pontecorvo's Queimada (Burn!) or the several stirring anthems he wrote for Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900. These are pieces that, as Morricone proved when he played them at a concert this month at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, can stand and soar on their...
RUNNING. Al Franken, 55, liberal political satirist; for the U.S. Senate; in a move that generated an immediate hum around a rather uneventful Minnesota Senate race. Franken, who hopes to oust Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in 2008, made the announcement on the final day of his Air America radio show, saying he plans to prove to voters that "he takes [the] issues seriously...
...elected, I promise not just to catch dogs but to care for them.") Lately, we knew Franken was serious about running because, when guests would start dissing Coleman on the air, he would change the subject. He knew that FCC laws forbid a declared candidate from having his own radio show...
...Franken could have made millions more writing books and giving speeches than he did as a talk-show host - especially for a network that often didn't pay his back salary. But he had been startled to learn that 21% of Americans got most of their news from talk radio, which at the time was overwhelmingly right-wing. "I didn't want to sit on the sidelines," he said today, "and I believed Air America could make a difference...
...Najaf as recently as last week. ?He told us, 'I would rather die here than flee,'? said one resident who was part of that group. But other Sadr City residents say they have heard that Sadr is out of the country, exact location unknown. The main Shi'ite radio station broadcasting from Sadr City has studiously avoided the subject...