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...last public mention of Aziz Saleh Numan - the King of Diamonds in the US deck of most-wanted Iraqis - came on March 24. It was only days after U.S. forces launched the war. In a broadcast apparently intended to show that Saddam was still in charge, the "Voice of Youth Radio,? a station run by Uday, Saddam's eldest son, reported that the Iraqi president met with Numan, and Republican Guard chief Qusay Hussein, another of Saddam's sons...
...encouraging the infiltration of Islamic militants to disrupt the polls. To prove their claim that Pakistanis or guerrillas based in Pakistan are responsible for the bloodshed, Indian authorities in Srinagar allowed Time to meet three recently captured militants: Siddique, along with comrades-in-arms Tariq Mahmood and Hamid Numan Butt...
...guitar for “Rendez-vu,” and Felix (progenitor of incredibly cool music but ostensibly a geek behind a mixing board) rushed to the front of the stage with a microphone and, in true rock-star fashion, sang-screamed the lyrics to the spastic, Gary Numan-sampling “Where’s Your Head At.” The clear high of the night came with a surprise performance of “Bongoloids,” a dancehall-tinged adrenaline-rush during which the entire cast stirred the audience into a frenzy...
...revels in that thrill. The song Little Black Spiders comes on hard, like the Prodigy in a back-room brawl with Metallica; another track, the smooth Full Moon, offers up a less confrontational sound, melding glitter-ball disco with old-school hip-hop. On Koochy, Van Helden samples Gary Numan's 1979 synthesized pop hit Cars, pumping it up with contemporary club-land rhythms. These songs startle, annoy, bewilder--and ultimately entrance. Van Helden's real rush, it seems, comes when he lures dancers back onto the floor...
LITTLE SUCH PRAISE can be heaped on New York's "Fearless 4," whose new song "Something New" perhaps shows the hazards of taking rap into the corporate swamp. (They were signed by Elektra/Asylum.) "Just Rock," which uses the music of Gary Numan's "Cars"--a song that should have never seen plastic the first time around--reaches for the same partydown atmosphere of the Jonzun Crew, but comes up empty...