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From the start, Morricone used eccentric instrumentation--not just humble toys like the harmonica and ocarina and panpipes but typewriters and tin cans--that, coupled with his profligate melodic gift, gave his films a gorgeous dissonance...
...Silent Witness race in the flesh, and may not have caught him on TV either. For his home was not the dirt tracks of the U.S. or the impossibly green paddocks of Britain and Ireland, but a splendid racing complex set amid skyscrapers in Hong Kong's Sha Tin New Town. To the folk of Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, Silent Witness was a hero; to true followers of the turf, worldwide, a legend. Now, put to pasture, he deserves to be known for who he really...
...Sunday, Silent Witness ran his last race at the Sha Tin course, the arena for all but one of his triumphs. There was to be no fairy-tale finish. After more than a year of assorted ailments and injuries during which he had gone winless, Silent Witness limped in ninth of 10 runners whom he would have pulverized in his prime. The bleak result didn't diminish the ardor for the mahogany 7-year-old. Upon trotting back to the unsaddling yard, Silent Witness was given an emotional reception of cheers and tears. Railbirds, decked in owner Archie da Silva...
...thoroughbreds, Silent Witness showed the Club packed horsepower too. Though racing has played a central role in Hong Kong's social and economic life since the British first colonized the barren rock, its citizens are not known for their sentimentality at the track. Yet attendance at Sha Tin would surge up to 50% whenever Silent Witness was on the card. His exploits even lifted Hong Kong's morale when the city badly needed a boost. In 2003, the first year he was named the world's top-ranked sprinter, the territory was reeling from sars, economic uncertainty and political tensions...
...Rooftops in the old city are crowded with spectators; a tin roof buckles under their weight. Police have closed down the streets; Afghan National Army soldiers guard intersections - Ashura rituals have often attracted Shi'ism's most violent sectarian foes, as the violence that has in recent days wracked Najaf in Iraq, and Karachi and Peshawar in Pakistan, where 14 were killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing. But here in Kabul, the only blood spilled is that collecting at the feet of the participants. "We are all Muslim. It is not important whether we pray with open hands...