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...year ago, at age 64, with more than 40 years in the record business and a dozen Top 40 hits under her sequined belt, former Motown star Martha Reeves arrived at the moment every professional entertainer dreads. The phone didn't ring as often as before, and the concert bookings were thinning out. So Reeves did the same as millions of people in their 50s and 60s who are facing the end of a career they love: she looked around for a new one that could put to work the skills she had honed in her first. And that...
...dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm--Jay recognizes that, at 37, with a girlfriend beloved by the public (Beyoncé Knowles) and a company to run (Def Jam Records), that act is a lot harder to pull off. So on Lost One and the brilliant thinking...
...bodies appeared near the home of Ahmed Mansur. He was standing there one morning when he heard about the corpse. He joined a group of people walking together to have a look. "He was very handsome," Mansur says. "He was wearing a gold necklace and a gold ring. There was a bullet wound in his forehead." Not long after, all the Sunni families on the street left Washash. One Sunni family found Shi'ite renters and handed the house over to them quietly. The other Sunni family gave its house to Shi'ite relatives. They were the last two Sunni...
...dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mic, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra-another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm-Jay recognizes that, at 37, with a girlfriend beloved by the public (Beyonce Knowles) and a company to run (Def Jam Records) that act is a lot harder to pull off. So on "Lost One" and the brilliant thinking...
...trip to mark the 40th anniversary of a historic meeting between Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. On that first formal encounter between the heads of the two Churches since England's King Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century, the Pope gave Ramsey the ring that symbolizes his papal authority. Williams was wearing that same ring in his meeting with Benedict. And these days, he might wish he had his own symbol of absolute power to wield back at home...