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There is a spate of worshipful Web sites devoted to her, and a breathless and wildly premature biography by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song , which describes her as "a sensuous, embodied angel, standing quietly on a concert stage as she report[s] back to God about the mysterious joys and sorrows of human existence."
A motel handyman confessed to a spate of slayings in Yosemite National Park.
Porto (selected European City of Culture for 2001) is certainly on the upswing, featuring a wide spate of concerts and theater that will likely improve the city’s offerings on a permanent basis.
Hambali's newfound interest in striking against the United States manifested itself in a spate of terrorist plans.
In her column today Maureen Dowd charges that in Hollywood, entertainment pooh-bahs are "skittering away" from its recent spate of China-bashing movie releases out of fear of losing access to Chinese markets.