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...sweating" him, as it's known in the trade. Leery of that idea, FBI boss Robert Mueller declined and issued a verbal order that any G-men who visited the CIA outpost should read the debriefing reports but stay out of the interrogation room. Abu Zubaydah soon began to sing and, among other things, quickly fingered Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. --Reported by Brian Bennett, Perry Bacon Jr., Timothy J. Burger, Matthew Cooper, Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington and Mitch Frank/New York
...what has science learned about what makes the human heart sing? More than one might imagine--along with some surprising things about what doesn't ring our inner chimes. Take wealth, for instance, and all the delightful things that money can buy. Research by Diener, among others, has shown that once your basic needs are met, additional income does little to raise your sense of satisfaction with life (see story on page A32). A good education? Sorry, Mom and Dad, neither education nor, for that matter, a high IQ paves the road to happiness. Youth? No, again. In fact, older...
...equity quintupled. Today the companies acquired during my tenure deliver more than 60% of Bertelsmann's free cash flow. Thomas Middelhoff CEO, Bertelsmann (1998-2002) London Don't Play It Again, Sam Re Simon Robinson's commentary on why Africa needs more assistance than fund-raising celebrity sing-along CDs [Dec. 6]: At last, a well-reasoned article about the problems of Africa that doesn't resort to images of war, famine and despair. As an African, I cringe every time I hear We Are the World and Do They Know It's Christmas? Sure, Africa needs help...
...article, entitled “Merry Whatever,” explained that people across the country feel they can no longer say “Merry Christmas”; they can’t light a community Christmas tree; and they don’t allow their children to sing renditions of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” for fear of alienating classmates by the song’s mention of “Christmas Eve.” Admittedly, I was mildly outraged—a classic case of unreasonable political correctness. The article?...
...Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, late of the Swedish pop group ABBA. For me, Chess was by far the finest score of the decade, rich and varied and powerful, and thrillingly melodic. It put tunes in my head that still sit up and sing there. In TIME, I wrote about Chess when it was still an album, a year before it was staged in London and three years before a revised version limped onto Broadway. Limped off, too, a couple of months later. The show closed, and Chess resumed its ideal form: an album full...