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Visitors who were on the viewing floor at the time of Saturday’s incident told The Associated Press they heard a loud noise, then saw what looked like smoke but turned out to be dust seeping out of the crack in one of the elevator doors.

“It almost sounded like a small explosion. It was a really loud bang,” said Michael Timms, 31, an American telecommunications engineer who lives in Dubai and was visiting the tower with his cousin Michele Moscato.

About 45 minutes later, rescue crews arrived and pried open the elevator door, Timms said. The faulty elevator was caught between floors, so rescuers hoisted a ladder into the shaft to help those trapped inside get out.

Abu Naseer, a spokesman for Dubai’s civil defense department, confirmed the incident. He said the call for help came in around 6:20 p.m. Saturday evening.

Emergency crews used another elevator to reach the observation deck and were able to rescue all 15 people stuck inside the faulty elevator unharmed, he said.

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The 2,717-foot building’s owner, Emaar Properties, has revealed few details about the incident since closing the observation deck indefinitely.

In a brief statement Monday, the company said the viewing platform was temporarily shut for “maintenance and upgrade” because of “unexpected high traffic.” It also hinted at electrical problems, saying “technical issues with the power supply are being worked on by the main and subcontractors.”

Emaar has made no mention of problems with the elevators. That angers some involved in the incident.

“What just kind of shocks me is that they were going to brush this under the rug to save face. If it broke, at least tell people it broke,” Timms said.

The company has not responded to specific questions about the incident or made anyone available to speak despite repeated requests by the AP.

Witnesses say the company provided little information to visitors stuck on the 124th floor observation deck as rescue crews worked. That lack of information caused panic among some visitors.

“I was really starting to get upset, getting really nervous,” said Moscato, 29, a nurse visiting from Columbia, South Carolina. “I started crying.”

She said she and Timms asked to use the stairs because they felt uncomfortable taking the elevator back down, but were told that was not allowed.

They, the people trapped in the elevator and an estimated 60 other visitors on the observation deck were eventually taken down in a freight elevator not normally used by the public, they said.

It remains unclear what exactly caused the elevator to fail.

Moscato said she spoke with a man, whose name she did not know, after he escaped from the elevator who said the lights went off and the elevator 천안 안마 began to fall before the brakes kicked in. It was not possible to independently verify the account.

The $1.5 billion Burj Khalifa opened with fireworks and other festivities in a widely televised celebration on Jan. 4 after a series of delays.

It boasts more than 160 stories, but the exact number is not known. The tapering, silvery tower ranks not only as the highest building but also as the tallest freestanding structure in the world.

The observation deck, which is mostly enclosed but includes an outdoor terrace bordered by guard rails, is located about two-thirds of the way up on the 124th floor.

By AP Business Writer Adam Schreck

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One of the biggest names in musical theater — the star and creator of “Hamilton” — has plunged right into his NEXT ACT. It’s in a place a long way from Broadway, but very close to his heart, as David Begnaud shows us: 

As the creator and star of the Broadway sensation, “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda is used to getting mobbed by adoring crowds. But the crowds that greeted him a few days ago in Puerto Rico were different. They weren’t there just to applaud him they wanted to thank him.

What is Miranda’s biggest concern about the island? “It’s still the immediate needs of the hardest-hit towns. It’s those towns in the mountains, and the hardest-hit towns that we are still struggling to get aid to.”

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still reeling. Fifty-three days later, much of the island remains without power and running water. Many roads and bridges are still out.  

Since the storm, the 37-year-old Miranda has been using his voice, and his fame, to sound the alarm.

Begnaud asked, “What is expected of you, as a Puerto Rican?”

“Well, it’s complicated, because I didn’t grow up here, so it’s this weird mix of I will do anything to support the island, but I also don’t for a second pretend I know what’s best for the island, because I don’t live here,” he replied. “My job is to amplify the concerns of Puerto Rico.”

While Miranda wasn’t born on the island, his parents were, and Lin-Manuel spent summers as a child visiting his grandparents in Vega Alta, outside San Juan.

“They were such a constant in my life,” he said. “They never missed a play. They’d fly to New York to come see me in the school play. I think of them so much.”

He walked through what was left of his grandparents’ home. “They bought this property and the only thing that was here was the porch. And they built the house around that,” he said. 

Here, as on much of the island, there is little left. 

“The porch has survived, has survived them, and has survived this hurricane. Is there a better metaphor for what Puerto Rico is going through than this footprint?” Miranda said. “We have to start from scratch. But we have this footprint. 

“The metaphor is, you know, 대전 안마 Hurricane Maria just wiped us out, but this footprint is still here, this porch is still here, and we are still here,” he said. “And as long as we’re still here and we are trying, we’re gonna rebuild this house. And we’re going to rebuild it with solar panels on top. The metaphor is we have an opportunity in the wake of tragedy to rebuild, and rebuild smarter, and rebuild better. And that’s the hope with this house, and that’s the hope with our island.”  

The day after Maria hit, Miranda did what he does best: he wrote a song, “Almost Like Praying,” inspired by “Maria,” from “West Side Story,” to raise money to help the devastated island. He rounded up some of the world’s biggest Latino stars — from J-Lo to Rita Moreno — to perform:

Released on October 6, it hit #1 on iTunes in 17 countries. All the profits go to a fund to help the Caribbean island recover.

“Through the Hispanic Federation, not even including ‘Almost Like Praying,’ we’ve raised just shy of $20 million,” Miranda said.

“How much money has the song alone brought in?” asked Begnaud.

“I don’t know yet! You know, I know that we’ve sold over 150,000 copies on iTunes. That’s $1.29 each. So that’s minimum $150,000.”

But as he was finishing the song, Miranda got caught up in a controversy on Twitter war with President Trump:

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

You’re going straight to hell, @realDonaldTrump. No long lines for you. Someone will say, “Right this way, sir.”They’ll clear a path. https://t.co/xXfJH0KJmw

“Any regrets?” asked Begnaud.

“No. Those were the only words I had on the occasion,” Miranda laughed. “You know, disasters are moments when leaders unite us, you know? They’re no one’s fault, and he starts attacking people on the front lines.”

Last week, Miranda hop-scotched the island, an unofficial goodwill ambassador. In Isla Verde, he made sandwiches at a relief kitchen. He was moved to tears from the welcome he received with his parents, Luis and Luz, looking on.

Begnaud said, “I thought of the two of you as I watched you walk around the island right behind him today. The pride a parent must feel to watch their son give such honor to the place where they’re all from.”

“And that people are so proud of him,” said Luis. “That’s, you know, in my town they remember him when he was a little boy. And that pride that you see — you made us proud of who you are.”

Miranda then visited an aid distribution center in San Juan, where he met with the mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz.

Begnaud asked her, “When he comes here, what does it do?”

“It’s a boost,” Cruz replied, “and it brings joy to people’s hearts.”

When he wasn’t making friends, he was making headlines. On Tuesday, he announced a $2.5 million fund to help residents get back on their feet. 

On Wednesday, he announced he’ll return in the lead role in “Hamilton” for a three-week run at the University of Puerto Rico in January 2019.

“It’s weird; just yesterday the Smithsonian announced that I donated my act two costume to the Smithsonian. I need it back!” he laughed.  “Just three weeks!”

“Aren’t you too young to be donating things to the Smithsonian?” Begnaud laughed.

“Well, yeah, I think so too.”

Thousands of tickets will be sold for just $10, though more expensive travel packages will be offered for sale to help bring tourism back to this home away from home.

Celebrated for his musical about the immigrant who became a founding father, Lin-Manuel Miranda has found his next act.

“Puerto Rico will come back stronger,” he replied. “I have nothing but faith in the character and the resilience and the brilliance of the Puerto Rican people. If they’re given a fair shot to come back, we’ll have an even better Puerto Rico than before.”

For the man who achieved fame and fortune through his musical about an immigrant who became a founding father, Lin-Manuel Miranda says giving back is the least he can do…

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Analysts say a potential succession struggle in the wake of Mehsud’s death could temporarily weaken the Pakistani Taliban but not cripple its ability to carry out deadly attacks

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The attack came on the day the country’s top civilian security official told the Associated Press that . It was the government’s first categorical confirmation of the death of the feared militant, whose passing is likely to weaken, but not vanquish, the al Qaeda-linked insurgent network he led.

The suicide bomber who attacked police in Pakistan’s Khyber tribal area Wednesday was able to get inside their vehicle before detonating his explosives, said local tribesman Izzakhana Afridi, who witnessed the bombing.

“I saw him running and jumping into the Khasadar vehicle and then an explosion pushed me down to the ground some 50 yards away,” said Afridi, using the official name of the tribal police.

Rasheed Khan, a local government official, said the blast killed 10 policemen, six civilians and one paramilitary officer.

Police official Ibrahim Khan, who survived the explosion because he was outside the vehicle, said the blast also injured about a dozen other civilians.

“I was about 30 yards away when a huge explosion occurred and I fell on the ground,” said Khan. “I looked back and found our vehicle destroyed and my colleagues in a pool of blood.”

No group has claimed responsibility, but Taliban militants often target Pakistani security forces.

Reports of Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud’s death emerged after a spate of U.S. missiles hit his stronghold in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt in mid-January. Mehsud was said to have died of wounds suffered in one of the strikes in the Waziristan region – another big victory for the CIA-led missile campaign that killed Mehsud’s predecessor just six months ago.

The Taliban have repeatedly denied his death, but backed off an initial promise to prove the 28-year-old was still alive. The militant group also denied his predecessor’s death for weeks until the succession question was settled.

In a response to an AP query, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, wrote, “Yes, he is dead.” A senior intelligence official concurred separately. Neither gave details as to when or how the militant died.

The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.

In late January, a tribal elder told the AP that he attended Mehsud’s funeral in the Mamuzai area of the Orakzai tribal region after Mehsud died at his in-laws’ home. Some local media reports, citing unnamed Taliban sources, said Mehsud died more recently in the Multan area of central Pakistan on his way to receive medical treatment in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi.

In the first few days after the mid-January missile strikes, the Taliban released a pair of audiotapes believed to carry Mehsud’s voice, in which he insisted he was fine. They have stopped offering additional evidence, one reason U.S. counterterrorism officials also are increasingly certain he died.

Still, 전주 안마 Mehsud has been mistakenly reported dead before.

After his predecessor, fellow tribesman Baitullah Mehsud, died in an August missile strike, the Pakistani interior minister was among those who claimed Hakimullah was killed in a succession struggle. But the militant met with reporters, on camera, in the weeks afterward and went on to lead a surge of bomb attacks across the country that left more than 600 people dead.

Hakimullah Mehsud has been considered a particularly ruthless Taliban fighter with grand ambitions.

He appeared in a video with a Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees in eastern Afghanistan. After that Dec. 30 attack, the U.S. temporarily ramped up its missile campaign in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

There are reports that commanders already are lining up to vie for his position as Taliban chief.

Among the potential successors are Waliur Rehman, the deputy Taliban commander who oversaw operations in the South Waziristan region. The Pakistani army is waging an offensive in that Afghan border area against the group that has damaged much of its infrastructure.

Another name being floated is that of Maulvi Toofan, a Taliban commander reported to be based in Orakzai, a region gaining importance as militants flee there from South Waziristan.

Malik, the interior minister, also said Wednesday that Pakistan is investigating reports that Qari Hussain, another Hakimullah deputy, had also been killed. If confirmed, Hussain’s death would be a significant blow to the group because he was in charge of training suicide bombers and had close ties to other militant networks.

Analysts say a potential succession struggle in the wake of Mehsud’s death could temporarily weaken the Pakistani Taliban but not cripple its ability to carry out deadly attacks.

The Taliban’s campaign of bomb attacks in towns and cities across Pakistan had eased in recent weeks, although 34 people were killed in twin bombings in Karachi last Friday.

Also Wednesday, a Pakistani army Cobra helicopter gunship crashed in the remote Tirah Valley of Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said.

Another army official said the helicopter’s pilot and gunner are missing and feared dead. He said the crash appeared to have been caused by either bad weather or a mechanical failure. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

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Judges on Wednesday rejected the government’s claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation.

In October, the High Court ordered officials to make public a secret seven-paragraph summary of U.S. intelligence files describing the treatment of British resident Binyam Mohamed. The Foreign Office appealed that ruling.

The British government released a statement following the ruling essentially claiming victory in the two year court battle, saying that if the information contained in the summary hadn’t already been made public, the court would have ruled differently.

According to the intelligence summary, which has been reported in the U.S., Mohamed was subjected to harsh interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation and threats soon after his arrest on behalf of American authorities.

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Ethiopia-born Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and says he was tortured there and in Morocco before being flown to Guantanamo Bay. He was released without charge last year.

“I mean, Marie Brenner, one of our best writers, did a great piece on him, and she noted in the piece that he had Hitler’s speeches in his office, and he went absolutely ballistic.” Brown says the future president got his revenge at a party a year later: “She suddenly felt something cold and wet in the back of her dress

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Tina Brown has been the guiding hand 청주 마사지 behind some of our most provocative magazines. Time now for some questions-and-answers with the legendary editor, talking with Tony Dokoupil:

It rarely happens that a magazine cover can still make waves 25 years after it hit newsstands.

“Demi was totally up for it. I mean, this was very brave of Demi to do, really,” said Tina Brown.

But Brown’s 1991 Vanity Fair cover of Demi Moore, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, has helped turn naked baby bump images into a celebrity rite of passage.

“And the funny thing is, it’s still going on,” Brown said. “I mean, there are stars now who feel the need to do a Demi Moore pregnant shot.”

During the 1980s and ’90s, Brown edited two of the most prestigious and powerful magazines in America — reviving Vanity Fair, and then The New Yorker. 

“My goal was seduction — seduction, seduction, seduction,” she said.

Now the fabled queen of buzz, who burnished the careers of so many cover subjects, is a cover story herself, with a new memoir, “The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992” (Macmillan). 

Brown wrote it all by hand. “It was just, you know, written on planes, written at night, written on the heat of the moment.”

And what a moment it was.

Take March 20, 1985, a photo shoot of President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy. 

“It came together really because Harry Benson, the photographer, had a genius idea to bring a boombox to the White House with a cassette in it: Frank Sinatra singing, ‘Nancy With the Laughing Face.’ Nancy says, ‘Honey, let’s dance!’ I mean, it’s as we weren’t there.”

Dokoupil asked, “When you saw that kiss happen, what’s going through your head?”

“Oh my God! Oh my God! We’re turned around the magazine.”

It flew off the newsstands, Brown said.

In those pre-digital years, print magazines were often fat with advertising and bursting with life — but for a time, Vanity Fair was not. “It was a huge snore,” she said. “I bought it and it just slipped from my hand out of sheer boredom.”

When Conde Nast turned to Brown, she was barely 30. She was a genteel daughter of filmmakers whose wit got her kicked out of three British boarding schools. 

“I was a kind of wicked describer. I mean, one school I was kicked out for writing my diary, which, you know, was prescient, in which the headmistress discovered that I’d referred to her bosoms as unidentified flying objects.”

At Vanity Fair, Brown pioneered a now-familiar blend of high culture and low. “Many people kept saying, ‘Well, is it a fashion magazine? Is it a celebrity magazine? Is it a serious journalism magazine? Is it a political magazine? The point was, it was all of those things, because we are all of those things.”

Brown dealt in gossip, too … some of it more relevant than ever. “Yeah, I love gossip,” she said. “Gossip’s irresistible. But gossip’s powerful and important, too, because frequently gossip is the first way stories begin. Frequently, gossip’s right.”

As she told “60 Minutes” in 1990, “Donald Trump always came on the line with a gag, and in a funny way, it did win him the hearts of the press, I think.”

She told Dokoupil, “I found him very beguiling, actually. I thought he had a kind of freshness and bravado that made me laugh. But then he got less and less entertaining, to be honest.”

“Why?” Dokoupil asked.

“Because the desire for publicity made him so impossible to deal with,” said Brown. “I mean, Marie Brenner, one of our best writers, did a great piece on him, and she noted in the piece that he had Hitler’s speeches in his office, and he went absolutely ballistic.”

Brown says the future president got his revenge at a party a year later: “She suddenly felt something cold and wet in the back of her dress. As she turned around, she saw Donald Trump progressing across the room and realized that he had emptied wine down her dress.”

And of course, there were the perils of editing while female, such as the Warren Beatty episode: “I’m talking about a cover; he’s talking about, when is my husband next out of town?”

For 35 years, Tina Brown has been married to the author and newspaper editor Sir Harold Evans.

“Tina has an amazing scent for the big story, the next big story, a news nose which is exceptional,” Evans said. Also, “a judge of character; and the ability to translate that character into somebody you feel you know.”

After Vanity Fair, Brown partnered with recently-accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein on a magazine called Talk. But, she says she never suspected the film producer’s alleged dark side.

Dokoupil asked, “Should you have dug deeper?”

“No, because it wasn’t my business to pry into what he did after hours,” she said. “I had no idea what was going on.”

“Did Harvey Weinstein ever come on to you inappropriately?”

“Never. I think Harvey’s taste was, you know, girls of 21 who were in high-heeled shoes from Hollywood. But you know, it’s a very shocking and disturbing story. And I think it’s been very cathartic indeed to hear the silence broken.”

By the way, Brown’s own story later included an adventure as Dokoupil’s editor at the old Newsweek. He reminded her, “You sent me to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in a submarine. I went to astronaut training camp. I went …”

“Are you whining, Tony?” she laughed.

These days, all of her big-name editorships have fallen away, replaced by a live conference business … and more time for tea at home.

But Tina Brown is still Tina Brown.

Does she miss it now? “Sometimes,” she said. “I don’t have Vanity Fair or The New Yorker behind me now. But I have a life. I have a reputation. And I can still get things done.”

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The British government released a statement following the ruling essentially claiming victory in the two year court battle, saying that if the information contained in the summary hadn’t already been made public, the court would have ruled differently

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Judges on Wednesday rejected the government’s claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation.

In October, the High Court ordered officials to make public a secret seven-paragraph summary of U.S. intelligence files describing the treatment of British resident Binyam Mohamed. The Foreign Office appealed that ruling.

The British government released a statement following the ruling essentially claiming victory in the two year court battle, 청주 안마 saying that if the information contained in the summary hadn’t already been made public, the court would have ruled differently.

According to the intelligence summary, which has been reported in the U.S., Mohamed was subjected to harsh interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation and threats soon after his arrest on behalf of American authorities.

That treatment, if carried out with the knowledge of British officials, would have violated Britain’s anti-torture agreements.

Ethiopia-born Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and says he was tortured there and in Morocco before being flown to Guantanamo Bay. He was released without charge last year.

But they never bragged about being Grammy-winners in front of their kids

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The song “Break First” is just one of the highlights from next Friday night’s “Showtime” special with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, a pair of country singers who’ve walked many A COUNTRY MILE together. This morning Tracy Smith tags along:  

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are both huge stars on their own, but when they get together — as they did at L.A.’s Staples Center this past July — they can bring the house down.

Nashville’s power couple has already sold out something like 80 shows on their current tour alone, a glittering festival of flirtation and age-defying physical fitness. (Believe it or not, they both turned 50 this year.)

Smith met the McGraws at a place not even they see very often these days: their home in Nashville.

She asked, “When you guys look in the mirror, do you see 50?”

“Depends on what day it is! Some days I see 58, 60,” McGraw laughed. 

“I don’t feel like I act 50,” Hill said.

“You don’t,” he responded.

Fact is, they mostly act like a couple in love: Faith and Tim have obvious chemistry, most of the time.

“I work with my husband, but I wouldn’t say that it’s 24/7 marital bliss,” Smith noted. So she asked, “There are fights?”

Yeah, they both agreed, though Tim added, “Usually it’s her fighting with me; I don’t fight with her!” 

“Yeah, I like to fight,” Faith said. “I like a good fight!”

“Well, we’ve had some good ones,” McGraw replied. “I mean, we’re passionate people!”

“What’s the big, like, knockdown, drag-out fight that you’ve had, would you say? Not literally knockdown, drag out, but a good fight?”

“I think the last thing we got, I didn’t load the dishwasher or something,” McGraw said.

Hill interjected: “Oh, you cannot say that — what? Oh, puh-lease!  No, that’s not true. I don’t care about that stuff. It really wasn’t that big of a deal. It was, for me, it’s just funny. Because I get him riled up. I know how to press those buttons. And if I’m a little angry, I can press those buttons big time.”

“And I can only dodge it for so long,” he said.

“Yeah. He doesn’t like those buttons being pressed. He likes a dial tone!”

To watch Tim McGraw and Faith Hill perform “The Rest of Our Life” click on the video player below.

Still, they do seem to get along: both are musically-talented Southerners who worked their way up from the bottom.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Faith Hill grew up singing for anyone who would listen, and was already a rising star when she went on tour — and fell in love — with Tim McGraw.

He was a Louisiana boy who grew up playing sports, and had more interest in joining a law firm than a band.

“Always wanted to be a lawyer,” he said. “From the time I saw ‘And Justice for All’ with Al Pacino when I was a kid, I said, ‘That’s what I wanna do with my life.’ So I thought that I was either going to be an athlete or a lawyer.

“And then I got into college and picked up a guitar, and both of those things went out the window.”

That was it?  “That was it. I was hooked. And first, because I realized that chicks like a guy with a guitar. That was probably the main reason that I kept playing.”

“It’s true,” Hill said.

“Yeah. It worked out pretty good! I mean, here we sit, baby!”

They married in 1996, and have three daughters.

McGraw, who once struggled with alcohol, says his girls are a big reason he gave it up, as he told me in 2013: “Ultimately, I think I got to where I thought my girls were too old to see that, me drinking. It had become a crutch for 대구 마사지 me to get over some shyness and to get over some reservedness. It’s still a tough thing to do to go out there, but I think I’ve gotten better because of it.”

Shyness has also been an issue for Hill, who’s had to battle severe stage fright. 

Smith asked, “Do the butterflies still get you?”

“They do, sometimes, yeah. I do get ’em every night. But they’re not as paralyzing as they have been in the past.”

To watch Tim McGraw and Faith Hill perform “Let’s Make Love” click on the video player below.

None of this seems to have held them back.

Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have 37 Grammy nominations between them: McGraw has three wins; Hill has five. But they never bragged about being Grammy-winners in front of their kids. In fact, they never told them at all.

“We were watching the Grammys one night,” Hill recalled. “And Gracie, our oldest, said, ‘Mom, how come you’ve never won one of those awards?’ And I’m — what? ‘Girl, I have. I’ve won a few. And your dad has won a few.'”

McGraw said, “There’s no way that what we do is not going to infiltrate your life. But we’ve tried to keep it at the door as much as possible.”

And there may be more Grammys to come: “Speak to a Girl,” the first single from their new duets album, seems like an antidote for recent Hollywood headlines.

‘Cause that’s how you talk to a woman That’s how you speak to a girl That’s how you get with a lady

Who’s worth more than anything in your whole world You better respect your Mama Respect the hell out of her ‘Cause that’s how you talk to a woman And that’s how you speak to a girl

To watch Tim McGraw & Faith Hill perform “Speak to a Girl,” click on the video player below.

“The timing, it seems like, is just unbelievable for that song that talks about respecting women,” said Smith.

“It was just a song that we fell in love with the message,” said McGraw. “You know, having three daughters, it was something that really hit home for us. It’s a good topic to discuss.”

“I think we can never lose sight of just basic common decency, common sense, and just the truth,” Hill added. “And I think it just hit at a time that we’re starving for that.”

The McGraws will be back on the road next spring, with at least 25 more tour dates on the books. But neither of them wants to do this forever.

“Do you guys talk about that — Some day we’re gonna go off and do something else?” Smith asked.

“Sure,” McGraw replied. “There are nights when you walk off the stage and you think, ‘I never wanna do that again.’ There are those nights. It happens, where you lay down and you think, ‘Why am I doin’ this? Why am I continuin’ to do this?’ 

“But look, it’s been really good to me. Music has brought me everything good that’s happened in my life,” he said, tearing up. 

“Awww. That’s so sweet. Dad gum — look at you, baby!” Hill said.

“I know. But it has. I mean, music has — anything that’s ever happened good in my life has come from music. So it’s a treasure to me. Whether I want to do it continually, whether I want to stop doing it, any of those things, it’s my savior in a lot of ways.”

“You really think that?”

“Yeah. It brought me to a world that I would have never experienced.”

And they’ve learned that music can be a lot like marriage. Not every night is heaven, but sometimes it can get pretty close. 

“We have those moments of ecstasy when everything makes sense,” McGraw said. “And you’re killing it, and you’re going to be killing it for the next 50 years. There are plenty of those nights. And those are the nights that keep you going. And those are the nights that you lay down at night and think, ‘Thank God I’m doing this for a living. And thank you, God, for letting me do this for a living!'”

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In recent months, the opposition has built its street protest strategy around days of important political or religious significance in attempts to embarrass authorities

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The reported raids are part of a broad offensive by Iran’s leadership to intimidate anti-government demonstrators from trying to disrupt state-backed celebrations Thursday of the 1979 overthrow of the pro-Western monarchy.

The New York Times reports that in addition to opposition activists the government has also imprisoned photographers, artists, children’s rights advocates, women’s rights activists, students and journalists.

Reporters Without Borders said that Iranian intelligence has arrested eight journalists within the past few days, bringing the total number of reporters detained to 65, more than in any other country.

Iranian authorities are desperate to show the upper hand on the most important day of the nation’s political calendar. But the high-profile events – including a huge gathering in Tehran’s Azadi Square and other places across Iran – offers a chance for opposition groups to make another powerful statement of their resolve.

Anti-government Web sites and blogs have called for a major turnout and 천안 마사지 urged marches to display green emblems or clothes – the color adopted by the anti-government movement since June’s disputed presidential election.

The opposition leaders have promised to join street rallies, including the Green movement founder and former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Iranian officials, however, have warned that any protests will be immediately crushed by security forces. At least eight people were killed in clashes during the last major opposition marches in late December.

The Iranian police chief, Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, said Wednesday that “a number” of suspected opposition supporters have been arrested in recent raids.

He gave no further details on the scope or timing of the raids, according to a report by the semiofficial Fars news agency. But he claimed some of those in custody were involved in planning demonstrations.

Some rights groups outside Iran have claimed hundreds of people have been detained in sweeps targeting suspected opposition backers.

The Fars agency – which is linked to Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard – also quoted Iran’s deputy police chief, Ahmad Reza Radan, as saying that security forces will come down hard on any displays of dissent.

“We won’t allow any space to seditionists,” he said.

Opposition groups did not appear deterred.

Web sites included detailed instructions on possible protest routes through Tehran and even offered detailed suggestions such as bringing whistles to drown out pro-government messages on loudspeakers throughout the city.

“All together let’s keep our identity and join the rally,” said a statement from Mousavi on his Web site – in an apparent reference to showing the colors of the Green movement.

In recent months, the opposition has built its street protest strategy around days of important political or religious significance in attempts to embarrass authorities. The tone of the rallies, however, has shifted from outrage over alleged fraud in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election to wider calls against the entire Islamic system, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The last large-scale marches – held to coincide with a Shiite holy day in late December – brought the most violent battles with security riots since shortly after the June 12 election.

In Geneva, a senior U.S. official said he hopes a U.N. debate next week on Iran will include probes into arrests of opposition leaders and alleged abuses of detainees.

John Limbert, who was among dozens of Americans held captive in Iran in 1979-1980, urged for a wide-ranging discussion about Iran’s human rights situation by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

People in Iran have been “gassed, arrested, beaten up and shot” since its disputed presidential election in June, Limbert told reporters. “The U.S. and the international community can bear witness to what is going on there, and can speak a simple truth.”

Iran’s U.N. mission in Geneva declined to comment on Limbert’s statements.

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Commenting on a report published earlier today in The New York Times, the Pakistani official confirmed the offer made by General Ashfaq Parvez Kiyani (Pakistan’s army chief of staff) during a visit last month to NATO headquarters in Belgium.

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U.S. Embassy officials were not available to comment. Last week, Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem confirmed that the U.S. State Department had passed the name of a potential nominee to Syria, but he refused to identify the individual tapped by the Obama administration. “The United States has nominated an ambassador. This is an American sovereign issue and it is Syria’s right to study the nomination,” Mouallem told a press conference. Ford, who speaks fluent Arabic, served previously as the U.S. Ambassador to Algeria from 2006 to 2008, and is considered to be an expert in Mideast affairs. The U.S. has not had an ambassador in Damascus since President Bush recalled Margaret Scobeyin from the post in the wake of Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 assassination in a massive bombing in Beirut that also killed 20 others. Syria’s foes in Lebanon accused Damascus of being behind the bombing. Syria has denied any involvement. For Syria, the return of an American ambassador is a welcome gesture that signifies Washington’s recognition that Damascus can potentially help ease violence in Iraq, stabilize Lebanon and solve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Syrian leaders have urged the West to embrace their country as a full partner in the quest to end the myriad problems facing the Middle East. Some observers, however, remain skeptical, cautioning that the re-appointment of a U.S. is an important step, but not likely a solution. In an opinion piece for “The National of Abu Dhabi,” veteran Middle East analyst Michael Young weighed in on the issue. “The Syrians know that Ford’s clout at home will be relatively limited, and that he will have to pass through a man greatly disliked in Damascus; the Assistant Secretary of State for Near East affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, who was the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon at the time of the Hariri assassination,” wrote Young. “Ford’s appointment took more than a year in coming, a long time when considering that President Barack Obama made engagement of Syria and Iran a centerpiece of his foreign policy campaign promises,” Young wrote in “The National of Abu Dhabi,” adding: “The relationship will improve, but Syria is unlikely to regain the prominent role it had in American regional calculations during the 1990s unless it gives in return.” Mitchell’s visit to Syria, the third since he was appointed as President Obama’s envoy to the region, was to pass along the name and discuss how to re-launch the long-stalled Syrian-Israeli peace talks. Syria insists the promise of an Israeli withdrawal from the disputed Golan Heights must be a precursor to any renewed peace negotiations between the two countries. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vehemently rejected the notion of a withdrawal from the territory seized by the Jewish state during a week-long war in 1967. Since taking the oath, President Obama has cautiously sought to improve ties with Syria, and U.S. lawmakers have made a flurry of visits to Damascus. Deputy Foreign Minister Fayssal al-Mekdad, a leading figure in Syrian foreign policy, also visited Washington. Arab diplomats suggest that a Syria-Israel peace deal might represent a slightly more attainable goal for the Obama administration in the region — certainly when compared to the prospects of a breakthrough in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. Israel and its chief ally, the United States, want Syria to cool its ties with Iran and to stop supporting the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, and Lebanon’s own Hezbollah movement, and help sideline them as armed players. The improving relations between Washington and Damascus may also yield intelligence gathering benefits for the Obama administration. Indeed, Seymour Hersh wrote in an article in the New Yorker last week that the Syrian secret services have already resumed cooperation with the CIA and Britain’s MI6. U.S. Under Secretary of State William Burns, an architect of a 2003 deal between the U.S. and Libya that helped bring some degree of credibility back to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will visit Syria on Feb. 17, according to Western diplomats.

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