Word: spectacularities
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...base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinéad O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip Moman classic unfolds...
...businessman squints from the photograph, his sparse beard framing a slight smile that lends him an enigmatic air. It's the same expression captured in the photos that have accompanied scores of magazine and newspaper articles on Rafik Abdelmoumèn Khalifa's spectacular rise as an international financier and jet-setter who hung out with celebrities like Bono, Pamela Anderson, Sting and Gérard Depardieu. But this particular shot of the Algerian tycoon is featured in a picture of a different kind: a mug shot on Interpol's Wanted list, where it was placed by Algerian authorities seeking...
...most wanted men on earth. A leading member of Osama bin Laden's brain trust, he is thought to have been in operational control of al-Qaeda's millennium bomb plots as well as the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. After the spectacular success of the airliner assaults on the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, he continued to devise terrorist plans...
True, you have seen a Mars landing before. Pathfinder's spectacular little rover, Sojourner--a remote-controlled vehicle about the size of a microwave oven--toddled across the Martian terrain in the summer of 1997. But you won't want to miss the show the two new ones promise...
...spectacular beaches? The velvety wine? The exchange rate? Something compelling seems to lure fugitives from around the world to the South African city of Cape Town. Last week police in the seaside metropolis arrested American fugitives Craig Michael Pritchert, 40, and Nova Ester Guthrie, 30, wanted by the FBI for a series of bank heists staged across the American West in the mid-1990s. U.S. officials say Guthrie and Pritchert--a former college baseball star who turned to crime after he felt he had been eclipsed by his teammate and future big-league slugger Barry Bonds--spent much...