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...singing career two years ago, Natalie Imbruglia starred in an Australian soap opera called Neighbours, sort of a cheesy Melrose Place Down Under. When she grew tired of soaps, she moved on to London, met a record producer and released an album, Left of the Middle, that became a smash hit. When Left recently debuted in the U.S., it entered the charts at No. 10, outselling the new Pearl Jam album and beating the first-week sales of Alanis Morissette's 1995 debut, Jagged Little Pill...
...resented his journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last 20 years of his rule in China...
...really disappointing," she said, "to see The Boston Globe smash Dorchester High School even while we're sitting at Harvard at a conference doing positive things...
...really disappointing," she said, "to seeThe Boston Globe smash Dorchester High School evenwhile we're sitting at Harvard at a conferencedoing positive things...
...album, Timeless, was instrumental in founding the genre of drum 'n' bass--pulsating, mostly danceable music driven by clubland bass grooves and propulsive percussion. Today's rock 'n' rollers are reveling in the groove, from Prodigy's brutal electro-punk, across the musical galaxy to the ska-rock band Smash Mouth's upbeat remake of War's Why Can't We Be Friends? Goldie wasn't the only influence, of course, but the sea change has been profound: if you listen to Yield, the grandfatherly new album by alternative-rock pioneers Pearl Jam, it sounds almost flat-footed next...