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...DIED. ADOLPH GREEN, 87, lyricist, librettist, playwright and performer who co-wrote hit Broadway musicals such as On the Town and the screenplay for Singin' in the Rain during a 60-year partnership with Betty Comden; in Manhattan. The couple was artistically inseparable and gave postwar America its most memorable Manhattan geography lesson?"The Bronx is up and the Battery down"?in the lyrics to New York, New York (A Hell of a Town...
...Islamabad, insiders say that both countries were often only a few steps away from all-out war over the past eight months. There was a constant rain of artillery fire on both sides of the border, and both armies were placed on highest alert in March following riots?Muslim-Hindu riots in Gujarat and last month when Muslim gunmen besieged a Hindu temple in the same western Indian state. These sources say that the U.S. played a key role in keeping the two nations at bay. On at least one occasion, the Pentagon's spy satellites picked up a sudden...
...DIED. RAY CONNIFF, 85, composer and bandleader whose breezy arrangements of popular hits such as Besame Mucho and Just Walkin' in the Rain epitomized the lounge sound of the 1950s and 60s; in Los Angeles. Despite their poor critical re-ception, Conniff's recordings have sold 70 million copies and become the sonic staple in elevators and supermarkets worldwide...
...disappeared from Angola's budget over the past five years. In Chad, the government spent $4.5 million of an initial $25 million World Bank payment on arms to prosecute a war against northern secessionists. Environmentalists worry that massive infrastructure projects like the Chad-Cameroon pipeline will destroy sensitive rain forests. Critics also fear that the oil windfall will help prop up dictators. In Equatorial Guinea, the ruling party and its leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, show no sign of giving up control; opposition members are routinely harassed and tortured, according to Amnesty International. The IMF has cut off several...
Both teams have benefited from impressive contributions by sophomore quarterbacks, both of whom took home Offensive Player of the Week honors in their respective leagues for braving the rain last weekend...