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Although the answer could easily be construed as either "Yes" or "No," the general consensus is torn. In a nutshell, Amos' performance at the Fleet Center was electrifying, dazzling and very very very loud. But she exchanged her dazzling range of singing ability for mere volume, and the result was unlike anything she had ever sang before. Quantity came before quality, and even though it gave her a chance to, for lack of a better phrase, "rock out" unlike she ever had before, it still short-changed the fans who wanted to experience a new and deeper level of Amos...
...drive Grace from her family, and again during Lizzie's teenage years. This leads to convoluted identity politics, for the dead Grace also inhabits Lizzie's body. Soon, Lizzie is waking to African dust between her sheets, the rolling of a slave ship and her own blood seeping from torn flesh. Although Perry has clearly read her Toni Morrison, her insights into slavery are no more piercing than, say, Steven Spielberg's in Amistad. But to be fair, this debut novel is not really about remembering that peculiar institution; it's about healing relationships between mothers and daughters. The twist...
...torn between such scattershot cost cutting and developing a long-term strategy that will put it back on the high road. At its core, GM still has too many models (56), too many North American assembly plants (29) and too many workers (220,000) to support its U.S. market share, which has declined from 35% in the early 1990s to 31.1% in 1997. A buoyant North American economy cushioned the pain of losing share--the company earned $6.7 billion last year--but has masked the severity of the company's strategic woes. Last week a report issued in Detroit...
...mind, I didn't wait until marriage--stuff that makes the parents reach for the smelling salts or the shotgun, depending on the household, the guilt of impersonating the angelic 18-year-old before my parents had been the only shadow over my heady new discoveries. But I was torn between the attraction of filial honesty and the terror of parental persecution...
Byrd's body was found on the morning of June 7, torn apart as if some wild animal had set upon it. His torso was at the side of a country road. His head and an arm were just over a mile away, ripped from his body as it hit a concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African...