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DIED. Muriel Spark, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
...ever committed to tape. Anti-Bush rhetoric abounds on the jangly “Haven’t Got A Clue,” on which Coyne sings “Every time you state your case / the more I want to punch your face.” The spare but anthemic “Free Radicals” tells of an imagined conversation with a suicide bomber. And the rollicking first single, “The W.A.N.D.,” angrily implores listeners to wrest power away from Bush by using magic wands. As always, the Lips give voice...
...Saturday, said during a 90-minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it." He notified President Bush in the afternoon. DeLay and his wife, Christine, said they had been prepared to fight, but that he decided last Wednesday, after months of prayer and contemplation, to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come. "This had become a referendum on me," he said. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district...
...Harvard was treated to its second straight impressive pitching outing. In his introduction to the Ancient Eight, freshman Adam Cole fanned 11 batters in 7 2/3 innings en route to earning his first collegiate win. Despite appearing fatigued at several junctures, Cole persevered to spare the Crimson bullpen for the following day’s doubleheader at Cornell. Jason Brown pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for his team-leading third save of the season, stranding two baserunners in the eighth and working out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth. New Jersey native Harry Douglas ignited the first...
...with activists like Jay Sekulow--who helped rally support for Bush's Supreme Court nominees--bombarding Karl Rove's evangelical liaison with e-mail. Within 48 hours, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had called Afghan President Hamid Karzai and urged Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, who was visiting Washington, to spare Rahman. President Bush declared, "We have got influence in Afghanistan, and we are going to use it to remind them that there are universal values." A White House official insists that "our displeasure could not have been made clearer...