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DIED. JOHN WHITEHEAD, 55, R.-and-B. artist best known for his 1979 hit, Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, which has become the unofficial anthem of Philadelphia's professional sports teams; of a gunshot wound; in Philadelphia. The singer-songwriter who, with his partner Gene McFadden, wrote a string of R.-and-B. hits in the 1970s, was shot in the neck as he and a nephew worked on a car. Police say the nephew may have been the intended target...
...recent tryout in a cramped storefront locale about two stops from the Bastille, Naso, wearing a black tie matching his shoes and slacks, sat with two RATP jurors, listening to a group of twentysomething French rappers and a musician playing koto, a traditional Japanese string instrument. Also auditioning were a duet of classical singers and a Roma singer and her accordion player. Around 1,000 musicians audition every six months, vying for one of the 350 licenses granted every year to play for tips in authorized spaces underground...
...possibly because its fur is white. The family that owns it lives in patient harmony with the creatures and environment, but nothing within the family's humble power effects a reconciliation between the beasts. So the family evokes a traditional remedy--ages old--and sure enough, as a two-string violinist plays, the mother camel allows her baby to suckle. The directors, Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, force nothing. They just stand at a decent distance recording a vanishing way of life (power lines and TV sets are already intruding). O.K., the endangered kid here is a calf, but viewers...
BAGHDAD DIARY: How a string of woes has turned Iraqis against...
ARRESTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, Indonesian Muslim cleric; on the day he was to be freed after serving 18 months for minor immigration offenses; in Jakarta. Authorities say they have new evidence that he heads the radical group Jemaah Islamiah and that he approved a string of bombings, including the 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people, although he has been acquitted of those charges. (He has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that linked him to terrorism...