Word: groupings
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...backer of Plan Colombia--in which the U.S. is funding a $1.3 billion drug-eradication program--even though most of the AUC's funds come from shaking down drug traffickers. "I prefer taking cash from the narcos than from honest people," says Castano, who explains that his group, like the rebels, collects a "tax" on coca paste and on the drug's transportation in AUC-controlled areas. Castano has given orders not to shoot at the government crop-spraying aircraft when they swoop over coca fields in his areas...
...about sex," says gay-boy-next-door Michael (Hal Sparks) in QAF's two-hour pilot (Showtime, Sundays, 10 p.m., starting Dec. 3). That is an exaggeration, but just barely. This adaptation of the controversial 1999 British cult hit series about a group of young gay friends is also about challenging gay and straight shibboleths, about relationships and responsibility...
Backstreet Boys isn't ready for the wine cellar yet. But the group seems tired of being the liquid refreshment of choice on schoolkids' lunch trays. The Boys' new CD, Black & Blue (Jive), is a half-hearted attempt to leave the never-never land of teen pop for the always-always land of established pop icons. Two of the boys (Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson) are married, and the entire group (rounded out by Nick Carter, A.J. McLean and Howie Dorough) seems to have more than puppy love in mind. You get the sense that, like most teen bands, they...
...group tries to deepen its lyrics on a few numbers, striving to be more pensive and mature. On Shape of My Heart, the Boys sing of "looking back on the things I've done," and they deliver the line as if they're looking back at decades instead of, say, a long weekend. On one of the more successful tracks, Yes I Will, they sing "Yes I will/ Give you everything you need/ And someday start a family with you." Clearly the Boys are courting a new, more adult audience. And none too soon--Richardson, the oldest member...
...presents four drawings of the bird in flight, two as seen from above and two as seen from below. Accompanying these are drawings of a juvenile robin, a regular adult, a "pale adult" and a slightly different form of the bird seen in eastern Canada. Another drawing portrays a group of robins in typical feeding postures on the ground. Beneath the artwork, Sibley presents a detailed description of robins' vocal behavior ("Call varies from a low, mellow pup or a sharp, clucking, often doubled piik to a sharper, rapid, urgent series kli quiquiquiqui koo..."). All this for what is probably...