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...citizens who care deeply for the future of our country, we must keep from letting our despair push us into destructive actions that may ultimately make the situation worse. There is a thin line between the pursuit of justice, which will promote healing and security, and the pursuit of revenge, which will only serve to expand the scope of this tragedy...
...starts in on the chorus of Eres Mia (You Are Mine), a song that he says reminds him of his wife. His pliant and melodious voice rises and falls, conveying a sense of yearning. He sustains a note in space. Though only 5 ft. 7 in. tall and thin as a reed, he carries the voice of a giant...
Making a protest you can party to is tough. Michael Franti and Spearhead's latest album, Stay Human, ambitiously incorporates a running play about a Mumia Abu-Jamal-like death-penalty case; the results are music as stiff and analysis as thin as the CD they're burned onto. But it does point to a potential flash point for the revival of protest music in the West: capital punishment in particular and law enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo...
...open and bouncing back to their previously glum levels - Gold and oil pulled back from Tuesday's spikes, and London actually saw a small rally on health-care stocks - but in large part investors seemed in sympathy with their American counterparts and stayed on the sidelines, with volume extremely thin...
...That is not what happened. In a particularly rough first 100 days, Powell went against Administration grain on Iraq and North Korea. He wanted American armed forces to continue Balkans peacekeeping; others thought it needlessly stretched the military too thin. Powell was blindsided when the Administration, without warning, disavowed the Kyoto protocol on global warming. Other officials stressed do-it-our-way; Powell sought cooperation...