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...next year he had a deal with Sun Records, which had launched Presley's career. Hey, Porter, backed by Cry, Cry, Cry, was his first hit. Around that time, with the help of Phillips and producer Jack Clement, Presley (who would shortly move on to RCA Victor and megastardom) and two other young men, Perkins and Lewis, would create the rockabilly branch of rock 'n' roll...
Still, some things are known. Thomas Victor Fuentes, the FBI's top agent in Iraq, told reporters that between 1,000 and 1,500 lbs. of explosives were used in the blast. Mortar and artillery shells were bundled around a 500-lb. bomb. The munitions were all military grade, imported from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and '80s. Many U.S. and Iraqi officials believe that the bomb was a suicide attack (though even that is not absolutely certain), which could be telling. Baath Party and Fedayeen Saddam guerrillas have not used suicide bombs before. "It's not part...
After the trial, he recalled the humdrum means he had used to cope with an approaching court date: Okhotin, who once undertook a 27-day hunger strike in defiance of his detention without formal charges, said he spent much of July buried in books, including a Victor Hugo novel and texts on the study of German, Hebrew and Latin...
...Transcendental Meditation (or TM, repeating a Sanskrit syllable over and over), Dzogchen (cultivating a clear but even-keeled awareness) and even trance dance (spinning with a blindfold on for an hour to dance music). And early next year a new book, Eight Minutes That Will Change Your Life, by Victor Davich, will advocate the most American form of meditation yet: a daily practice that he claims takes just eight minutes. That, it turns out, is exactly how long we're conditioned by modern society to concentrate, since it's the amount of time between TV commercials...
...Though the mutineers backed down, it's hard to see Arroyo as a clear victor. The mutiny was a painful black eye for the economist-turned-president on the weekend before her final State of the Nation address on Monday. Government officials fear that the biggest blow could be to investor sentiment towards the economy. "This is really destructive for the image of the country," complains Trade Secretary Mar Roxas. And that's the last thing the Philippines needs...