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...latest album, 19-year-old Brit Joss Stone reminds us just why we liked the ’70s so much. Don’t let the album’s title mislead you. “Introducing Joss Stone” is in fact Stone’s third solo album. And it shows—Stone sounds more mature than she did on either of her previous releases. The album is ambitious; bringing soul back is a touch more difficult than bringing sexy back. And while she’s no Aretha, the CD is still an achievement...
...after you wake up... you can often feel the associative networks that were activated during dream construction, and trace them back a ways, and maybe discover a new way of looking at events in your life, of looking at yourself, at others, or at the world at large." Maybe that's worth a third of our lives asleep, perchance dreaming...
...past several years, however, Gates has had a far greater and nobler impact on the world through his philanthropy. With an endowment of $33 million, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation gave away $1.55 billion in 2005 alone. From working to cure diseases in the third world to funding improvements in American public schools, the Gates Foundation has established itself as the central presence in worldwide philanthropy...
...Crimson coach Peter Brand said. “The depth of their roster was something I have not seen in quite a long time. In each weapon, in each event, they had literally a world-class fencer.”Hagamen locked up his first individual medal in New Jersey by winning 19 of 22 bouts, beating out the second and third-place finishers by just one victory. The final bout could not have been closer. The Crimson’s captain beat out Notre Dame’s Patrick Ghattas, 15-14, to become just the fourth men?...
...Take Jacob, for instance. He was not always the grim and asexual idealist he appears to be. At one time he was a doper and a drunk idling his life away in third-world squalor. It is why Helene (Jorgen's sensual yet sensible wife, limpidly played by Sidse Babett Knudsen) long ago left him. And why she is startled to encounter him as a new self, stern and rectitudinous. It's the same way with Jorgen. Underneath his affability there is a willful and angry self-made man - and a brutality that is openly manifested in a drunken restaurant...