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...single piece of Grammy gold. Some of Grammy's greatest hitters are heavy-duty worthies (Aretha Franklin has copped 15, Stevie Wonder 17), but it's also true, as Marsh points out, that "no one thinks that the Grammys honor artistry. People like Marvin Gaye, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Spector have all been disrespected by the Grammys, and so people don't take the awards seriously...
...fact, in this age of video-driven, computer-written pop, you need a superstar to sell a song. Using studio personnel to supplement and even define a group sound is not an unheard-of practice in rock: Remember Phil Spector's use of other singers under the name of the Crystals, or Brian Wilson's hours in the studio concocting Beach Boys tracks? The new wrinkle is that the people who provide the sounds may not be exactly . . . well, charismatic on camera. Today's concert audiences want to see re-creations of videos, and that often demands intricate, high-energy...
...rival, India, exploded a test device in 1974. Pakistan has been producing weapons-grade uranium since 1986. Most analysts have been convinced for several years that the country has had on hand all the components necessary to make bombs. Last year Pakistan tested two new ballistic missiles. Leonard S. Spector, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, estimates that Pakistan's arsenal could contain up to 10 bombs of about the same yield as those the U.S. dropped on Japan...
...White House has apparently drawn the same conclusion. "Pakistan has gone past the line used by Congress and the Administration to define possession," says a senior U.S. diplomat. "They keep saying one thing and doing another and getting caught." Spector believes that the threshold Pakistan crossed was turning enriched uranium into metal cores needed for bombs, which it did last summer...
Tension between India and Pakistan over Kashmir is intense, and with war between them a real possibility, neither is likely to halt its nuclear weapons program. Spector estimates the Indian nuclear arsenal at 40 to 60 bombs. Pakistan sees its weapons as a deterrent to India's nuclear and conventional military superiority...