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It’s no easy task, picking a single winner from an All-Star recruiting troika. Go ahead, ask Walsh to choose from among his freshmen...
Soros (who has smoked pot but no longer does) declined to be interviewed, and like the rest of the troika, he won't debate Walters. They are probably refusing for two reasons: 1) they would likely lose, since none of them are politicians; and 2) if you were going around the world on a 255-ft. yacht, would you list "Drug Czar" as one of your ports of call...
...troika of seventysomething gospel war-horses works '60s, '70s and '80s R. and B. into its repertoire. Sounds like a scheme contrived to attract boomers who want to tell their friends they like old Southern musicians but who don't actually want to listen to an album of old Southern songs. But the Blind Boys freshen up classics like the Impressions' People Get Ready, masterfully riffing off of familiar melodies. They don't nail every song--their take on Prince's The Cross is stiff--but their honey-and-gravel voices are never predictable. They're always hunting...
Although he was a member of the Commonwealth troika that recommended censuring Mugabe, Mbeki and his ruling African National Congress accepted Zimbabwe's election results as legitimate. Mbeki's ambivalence amounts to a compromise that probably averted a split between African and non-African members of the Commonwealth...
...sign books and paraphernalia—including the occasional chainsaw or two. Wordsworth Books hosted the event and, as a special treat for Campbell fans, joined up with the Brattle Theatre to combine the book signing with a special showing of Evil Dead 2, the acclaimed masterpiece of his troika...