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Meet Coldplay--singer Chris Martin, 23; guitarist Jonny Buckland, 23; bassist Guy Berryman, 22; and drummer Will Champion, 22--four fresh-scrubbed British lads who teamed up three years ago at University College London. The band's first full-length album, Parachutes (Parlophone), made its debut last May at the top of the British charts, went on to sell more than 2 million copies, and is now available in the U.S. on the Nettwerk America label. It shared the warbling vocals and slow, stately beat of Radiohead's more conservative efforts, and comparisons between the two bands ran amuck...
...conference is usually held in December, but because of election 2000's length, this year's conference had to be pushed back...
...also extremely bold. At a time when he knew the FBI had compromised three KGB agents, he was writing letters to two more - people he had never met before - and offering information for money. And he wrote at length - when you're doing something like this, trying to keep your identity a secret from both sides, you communicate tersely. You don't prattle on and on and on. That's how they caught the Unabomber...
...weight rather than value, you will be reimbursed no more than $9.07 per lb.) The second right is that passengers must be compensated if they are "bumped" from a plane that has been oversold. The amount owed the traveler depends on the price of the ticket and the length of delay in eventually arriving at the destination. If the airline gets you home more than two hours after you were due, for example, the compensation is double your fare, up to a $400 maximum...
From his early days in Miles Davis' quintet to his groundbreaking work with the rap trio A Tribe Called Quest, Ron Carter is the rare bassist who propels music as much with his ideas as his skills. On this, his first album-length experiment with Latin jazz, Carter realizes that others have come before him, so rather than beat the congas to a pulp, his expert quartet, featuring ace percussionist Steve Kroon, flirts with them. Latin classics like Besame Mucho and Corcovado are splendidly reworked into disciplined, mid-tempo jazz tunes, while samba-flavored Carter originals Loose Change...