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Film
Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (Not rated)
Music
Von Freeman, The Great Divide (Premonition)
DVDs
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
Books
Dark Voyage by Alan Furst (Random House)
The List
Best books... chosen by Timothy Garton Ash
Top of the Charts
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The hunt for Osama bin Laden
After the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush vowed to catch Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.” Since then, hundreds of other al Qaida leaders have been killed or captured. Why is bin Laden still on the loose?
   Athens: Olympic spirit falters
   Tokyo: Fischer turns Japanese
   South Ossetia, Georgia: Risk of civil war
   Jerusalem: More settlers
   Congo border, Burundi: Refugees slaughtered
   Sydney: Iraq war criticized
   Washington, D.C.: Al Qaida’s recruits
   Denver: Pre-trial chaos
   San Francisco: Marriages invalid
   Lourdes, France: Pope stumbles
Jumping the line, when a 32-year-old Houston man found a liver donor after renting two billboards for a plea that read, “I need a liver. Please help save my life!” There are 17,471 people waiting for liver transplants.
Concentration, when a spectator wearing nothing but a tutu and polka-dot tights evaded Olympic security to jump into the pool in the middle of a synchronized diving event. After the interruption, one diver landed on his back, another hit the board, and a third flubbed a landing.








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