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...first shots rang out just after 1 p.m. Laurent-Desire Kabila, 61, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was in heated discussion with advisers inside the presidential palace in the capital of Kinshasa. Details of what happened next remain sketchy. One version is that a bodyguard drew the President aside and then shot him twice. Another is that a minister shot the President after Kabila ordered his arrest. In any event, shooting continued for about 30 minutes. Soon after, presidential chief of staff Eddy Kapend went on state television to appeal for calm and announce the temporary closure...
...turned into a fight; a Champagne bottle was broken over someone's head; two men fell. Jacinth Baker, 21, and Richard Lollar, 24, had been knifed and were dying. A big man who had tried to break up the fight jumped into a limo, which wheeled away as shots rang out. The man's name was Ray Lewis, and he was heading into a year that would see him reach the depths--shackled, in solitary, roused in the dead of night to make sure he hadn't killed himself--and then climb to the heights. On Sunday, Lewis, 25, star...
...oenology. Then he moved to the East Coast and a job in a research lab. Before long he was hankering for the wine trade again. He studied for an M.B.A., then joined Hublein to manage imports of Baron Philippe de Rothschild's wines to the U.S. Then the phone rang, with an offer to work on Mondavi's Languedoc project...
...hide in Arab areas. And they got us the best access to the battlefield for the great battle that never happened. That was the Battle of Khafji, one of the more important clashes of the ground war. I'd been having tea with an Egyptian general when his phone rang. It was General Schwarzkopf, and they had an animated conversation. Schwarzkopf told the Egyptians that a huge Iraqi assault was expected on the Western flank of allied lines. He was saying they're coming straight at you. So the general let us go out with his special forces, who were...
...open mind are essential attributes for the knowledgeable consumer, it's what ends up playing on your stereo all the time that determines your musical worldview. Thus old-school tunesmithery prevails here, as it did on my CD player all year. Herewith, a selection of 20th-century music that rang my bell...