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...task he now faces. At first blush, there is little in the President's background that equips him for his new mission. He is not a young man--10 years older than John F. Kennedy was at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, only four years younger than Franklin D. Roosevelt, on the original day of infamy. But for someone age 55, he has often seemed to have absorbed few of the annealing lessons of maturity...
...coach-class line, dressed in inexpensive clothes, but their tickets were first class, one way. Prepaid at $2,400 each. "Oil money," thought the agent. Such passengers are common at Dulles, but these two looked a bit young: one, around 20, spoke a little English; his brother, even younger, spoke none. And they seemed awfully thin, almost underfed. The agent saw they had ordered special Muslim meals, but so had some others on the flight. The brothers gave the right answers to standard security questions and had valid IDs, one of them a proper-looking Commonwealth of Massachusetts driver...
...know was that the inferno below his employees had sealed off all avenues of escape. A group of them were gathered around a speakerphone talking to colleagues in the U.S. and overseas when the jet struck. Chaos erupted, and the line went dead. Other workers, including Lutnick's younger brother Gary, phoned their families to tell them goodbye...
...artist himself donned military garb and led troopers in advertisements to promote HIStory: Past Present & Future—Book 1, a two-CD set of his greatest hits and new material. The first single, “Scream”, marked the first-ever collaboration between Jackson and his younger sister Janet. The music video, still unsurpassed as the most expensive in history, featured the angry Jacksons venting their rage and expressing their unity on a monochrome spaceship. The lyrics were unusually open and angry for the pop king, a tone that characterized most of the new material on HIStory...
Postponed after the events of last Tuesday, Malian singer-guitarist Habib Koite, and Zimbabwean superstar Thomas Mapfumo will finally grace the stage of Sanders Theatre. The two are well matched—Koite’s acoustic, blues-flecked West African themes represent a younger generation of musicians, yet one still faithful to their musical heritage. Thomas Mapfumo created his own tradition in Zimbabwe, where he is credited with originating “Chimurenga” music, the music of the Zimbabwean Liberation struggle. Recently forced to leave Zimbabwe after releasing Chimurenga Explosion last year, an album that specifically criticised...