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...difficult to believe that the Soviets would risk using a KGB official as important as Yurchenko in a sting operation against the CIA. There is always the chance that the agent might defect for good or be forced to reveal valuable information. "If you were chief of the KGB, would you pick an agent who knew all your agents and send him on a mission like this?" asks former CIA Director Richard Helms...
...Sting the perfect person? If we are to believe this film, the rock idol comes as close to that status as mortal man may aspire. It chronicles, from early rehearsals through first concerts, the formation of his new band, composed entirely of black American jazz musicians. Sting is convinced that their music and his should cross-fertilize. Besides, he is striking a blow against the "reactionary and racist" music business. Objectively, it has never seemed a dangerous hotbed of those sentiments, but the man's heart is in the right place. Just watch him being loyal, trustworthy, gutsy and modest...
...second-half performance mitigated the sting of yet another loss, Harvard’s ninth straight, to a high-powered opponent...
...this weekend, Harvard students will have a little more in common with Sting, Miles Davis, and Jay Leno, joining the ranks of those who have witnessed the musical talent of renowned saxophonist Branford Marsalis, who will be performing on Sunday evening...
...there were great moments in the music. Elvis Costello asking the Wembley audience to join him in "this old northern English folk song" and performing a peerless acoustic guitar version of All You Need Is Love. Bono of the Irish band U2 singing a mesmeric Bad. Sting duetting with Phil Collins on Every Breath You Take. Bob Dylan, singing a set of early songs and suggesting that a small portion of the Live Aid donations be used to help American farmers pay off mortgages. But the video superstructure constructed to beam the event across the world became an open...