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...protect the country and to stabilize its neighbors. The nine-nation mission to restore order to Solomon Islands, he says, is a model of what close cooperation can achieve. Australia and New Zealand are also helping small states update antiquated laws. Police had to wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill - increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life - was not ready to put to Parliament until the day of the raid...
...Murphy is an actress I've followed since 1984, when at 25 she played the mother in Galt MacDermot's "The Human Comedy." She was a smash as an amnesiac chanteuse in the off-Broadway "Song of Singapore," as the obsessive jilted lover in Stephen Sondheim's "Passion" and as a dark-hued Anna in the 1996 Broadway revival of "The King and I." Here she uses her kabuki face to all manner of deadpan delight, then goes into giddy spasms in the dance numbers. She's Buster Keaton in repose, Diane Keaton in motion. Her and the show...
...Then he was gone - away from Atlantic, off to ABC Paramount, for the life of an interpretive rather than creative artist. Ray Charles sings country? Well, why not? He had a smash with ?I Can?t Stop Loving You? - the kind of success that can propel an artist (or at least allow him to cruise) toward a career as a non-hit-producing musical treasure. For the next four decades, he toured, guested on TV shows, earned honors galore, including a Presidential Medal and a charter membership in the Rock ?n Roll Hall of Fame. It was coasting, sure...
...From a military standpoint, the spring offensive was straightforward. Pakistani troops swept into Wazir villages while American soldiers in Afghanistan braced near the border to smash al-Qaeda fighters flushed out by the Pakistani advance?"a hammer and anvil" approach, as one U.S. general confidently called it, that never developed. Judging from the daily communiqu?s by U.S. military spokesmen in Kabul, the enemy was as elusive as ever, emerging only to ambush American patrols. One such attack led to the death of 27-year-old U.S. professional football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman...
...over again on “classic rock” stations, but his name rings bells only when grouped with those of David Crosby, Graham Nash and sometimes Neil Young. And while listeners may whistle the tune from “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” the smash single Stills penned, they don’t realize that they’re singing the catch phrases of radical politics. Take another listen: after seven-odd minutes of folky guitar licks, pitch-perfect harmonies and snatches of soul-baring poetry, Stills starts crooning something in Spanish about Cuba...