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...Connor even talks up a little sermon at the end of the album about death, pain, crucifixion and the Holy Roman Empire. But the speech is reassuring--it's nice to know that she didn't have a complete personality transplant for this project. She's still subversive, trumpets, string section and all, which in its own way is quite an accomplishment...
Most of those waiting are women and children; their men were killed in the endless fighting that has cursedhusband in two months -- "He has another wife," she explains -- and two younger children have died of hunger. Her daughter, naked except for a string of turquoise beads, coughs at her side. Dhaqane snatches the girl to her bony chest. "I will stay here," she says, "until the food runs...
...fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday, hard-line nationalists attempted to open a new front in eastern Georgia. On Thursday Shevardnadze flew to Moscow to negotiate another Abkhazian cease-fire. The endless string of crises has set back his goal of building a democratic Georgia and taught Shevardnadze that his civilized style of negotiating, so admired in the West, does not work as well in a country where the other side is liable to pull out guns...
...pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline and suspended by a string that hung out of his mouth during the flight...
...strict instructions are easy to forget from Howie's lofty perch high above all the excitement. In fact, Howie is so enraptured by the Convention hoopla that he loses his balance and accidentally pulls the string that sends 80,000 balloons sailing toward the convention floor. (At least, that's the way he explains it to reporters later...