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Franks' day typically begins at 4 a.m., with 30 minutes on the treadmill in the sunroom of his government-provided house on the grounds of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. He blasts country tunes--Garth Brooks and Travis Tritt--and '50s pop on his CD player. Sometimes he sings along, and sometimes the noise wakes his wife Cathy. Then he heads for his computer to check e-mail and the news amid gulps of black coffee. Cathy kisses him goodbye each morning with a charge: "Go make the world safe for democracy...
...slide show and presentation. Most of the actors in the film have Down syndrome, and the images supposedly make Luis Bunuel's films look like Home Alone. He's particularly fond of his second film, written by an actor in the first who died of cystic fibrosis. Glover's CD and four novels (which are old books he cut up and drew on to create new, creepier stories) are on the fringe of even art-world culture. But he says he has learned to separate art from his acting and, more important, his interviews, in which the only...
...shift gears. After developing a respectable oeuvre of compact discs, I arrived at Harvard only to be confronted by the blossoming world of MP3s. It was about then that I threw in the towel. Perhaps it was all the love, energy and money I had poured into my CD collection. More likely it was because I watched my roommate whither away, spending entire days downloading—shudder—only a cappella MP3s. (Those were dark times.) Unfortunately, now I am teased for throwing money away on CDs, but I must confess I am drawn to their neat packaging...
...what they called "the martyrdom operation inside America." On camera, they provided details of the attack, disclosing coded e-mails that had referred to the Twin Towers as "the Faculty of Town Planning." They also displayed a suitcase full of souvenirs, such as handwritten notes to the hijackers, CD-ROM flight simulators and aviation charts of America's East Coast. Since Oct. 11, 2001, there has been a $25 million price on his head. Police officials aren't saying whether anyone is claiming the money...
There are strict laws against debt collectors' harassing debtors, but a new audio CD put together by the National Consumer Law Center, a not-for-profit group of lawyers and others, vividly shows how harassment still goes on. The CD features recently taped phone calls from around the country...