Subject: Cyprus

• Van Morrison revisits perhaps his finest hour, forty years later

  "I believe I've transcended," Van Morrison repeatedly incanted toward the end of the title track from his 1968 album, Astral Weeks, during the second night of a brief November stint at the Hollywood Bowl. Indeed, frequently over the course of those two nights, the famously mercurial, 63-year-old Irish singer-songwriter seemed to transcend age, time, and whatever other ballasts turn some veteran performers into wan caricatures of themselves better suited to halls of fame than halls of music. All

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• Hip-Hop Humor

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• Three the Hard Way

  Several high-profile columnists leave the media scene in very different ways.

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• Flush With Success

  Bidet manufacturer Hal Bregman hasn't sold a buttload of units, but he stands behind his product.

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• Syria's Eating

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• Pipeline to Palestine

  A group of Jews ran gunpowder and TNT through Denver's streets. And they never blew their cover.

  August 14, 1997

• Feedback

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• THE EPA GOES RADWHAT BETTER PLACE FOR A NEW GOVERNMENT LAB THAN A RADIOACTIVE SITE?

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