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...sharecropper and Mississippi blues master who first found fame in the 1990s with the documentary Deep Blues and his recordings for Fat Possum Records, based in Oxford, Miss.; in Memphis. His raw, unrehearsed sound soon drew a cadre of mostly white, alt-rock admirers, some of whom, like Jon Spencer, became collaborators; one of Burnside's pioneering 1998 blues-techno tunes, It's Bad You Know, was later featured on TV's The Sopranos...
...China National Offshore Oil Corp. to buy U.S. oil giant Unocal has run into stiff headwinds after Unocal's board voted to stick with an improved offer from American company Chevron. Revaluing the yuan "buys the Chinese significant political capital," says Hong Kong-based Merrill Lynch strategist Spencer White...
...take fluids. His treatment should be put in the proper context, which is that the prisoners at Guant?namo are fed meals that accord with their religious beliefs, they are given Korans and prayer rugs, and their health is monitored. Torture camp? Sounds more like a resort to me! Ron Spencer Raleigh, North Carolina...
...SPENCER -- Raleigh...
...those old Maryland and Virginia families that like to trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror. But the Warfields' relative social prominence was not matched by wealth, especially after Wallis' father died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced, whose family had a prospering shipping firm...