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After one month Sanders was allowed to carry money at the pump--a promotion. "Jean's been a good man," says Brad Goodman, the station owner. "When I met him, I found it hard to believe that he had such an illicit history. He was very soft spoken, well mannered, clean cut." Sanders makes less than $13,000 a year, and he doesn't get any benefits yet. But he is employed and has a room of his own. "I don't have no issues," he says. "I work, I come home tired, I go to sleep, I go back...
...music cranked up loud. We're in the middle of nowhere, but you'd never guess it from the crystal-clear reception on the radio. With a friend at the wheel, I'm flipping from Latin jazz to African pop to '80s hits, intent on finding the perfect station for our New Year's road trip to Washington, D.C. I'm not wild about working vacations, but since this one involves testing out a high-tech radio system in a brand new Cadillac DeVille--complete with built-in seat warmers and back massagers--I'm not complaining...
...first thing to get used to with XM is all the new channels. While you still get regular broadcast stations via antenna, there are 100 XM channels; about a third are commercial free. These stations are transmitted from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, so in theory you could listen to the same station from Seattle to Miami. While the XM offerings include radio versions of network fare like CNBC, ESPN and MTV, there are dozens of original music stations created by XM's staff...
About half an hour into our trip, I find an alternative-rock station that I can groove to. It's called Fred, and it plays songs by Erasure, The Cure, Social Distortion. But wait! Why is my friend switching to that awful techno music? Luckily, we agree on some things. We both like CNN Headline News in small doses and classical music in the evening. We sorely miss National Public Radio (which XM's competitor, Sirius, plans to offer when it launches later this year) but settle for the BBC. And we have a weakness for love songs...
...circa 1910, two families engage in a vendetta. The Breves are poor and losing the fight. One of their sons (Rodrigo Santoro) runs from it, finds love with a traveling entertainer (Flavia Marco Antonio), but not without bleak consequences. This movie is more emotionally remote than Salles' fine Central Station. But it is starkly beautiful and says something potent to a world in which nations, like these families, engage in mindless blood feuds...