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...husband and wife); he also considers himself a modern bluesman, wears his red band uniform offstage and uses the liner notes of his new album, Elephant, for a jeremiad on "the death of the sweetheart." He's like a vigilante grad student holding a highlighter pen to your throat--except when he sings. Jack White can really sing...
...unsure just why they had done it. As journalists clambered through Iraqi bunkers and locals helped themselves to the more useful bits of the trench reinforcements, Mam Rostam headed back to headquarters. So did I, where I found him again, still ebullient, chain smoking and complaining of a sore throat, but happy to talk. The withdrawal, the Kurdish commander said, was likely to set off a panic when the next Iraqi line suddenly sees 3,000 of their own put it in reverse. They'll keep retreating, he predicted...
Jamie Bissonnette, with the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-based social-justice group, spoke of a woman who slit her throat during her confinement and required 125 stitches in her neck...
DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, rhythm-and-blues man whose soulful, often raunchy songs helped set the stage for Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry; of throat cancer; in Los Angeles. As frontman for the Midnighters, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer won teen adulation, if not radio play, for such racy hits as 1954's Work with Me Annie. In 1958 he wrote and recorded The Twist as the b side of the sappy Teardrops on Your Letter. After Chubby Checker recorded Twist a year later, the song launched a dance craze and became one of rock's seminal hits...
...similar affliction. His case sparked further concern when he was airlifted to Hong Kong and scores of health-care workers in Hong Kong and Hanoi, many of whom had treated him, came down with similar symptoms?typically, a high fever followed by a dry cough, muscle aches, headache, sore throat and severe breathing difficulties...