| The Winehouse Chronicles
The year 2007 was the year of the good, the bad and the ugly for Amy Winehouse. With her trademark beehive hairdo, soulful vibe and retro production, it's easy to see why she fascinated music lovers in need of rehab for the soul. And she delivered. In more ways than one as her latest album Back to Black proved to be a platinum plus introduction to fans who had yet to discover Amy in her early Hip-Hop, jazzy form on her freshman effort Frank. Even rap fans had to bow down as the singer received co-signs from Prince, George Michael and The Roots' ?uestlove as well as Ghostface Killah, who appears on the remix to Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good,"and Pharoahe Monch and Jay-Z, both of whom officially expressed their love and respect for Winehouse by showing up on remixes to her hit single "Rehab." That song, which detailed Winehouse's refusal to take her management company's advice to go to an alcohol rehabilitation center, would go on to be the theme song of the singer's year as Back to Black went multi-platinum overseas and in the U.S.
Catholic Schools Week/West
Pajama and Movie Day will be Monday when pupils can wear pajamas. A spelling bee will be Tuesday for grades 6-8. An ice cream social is at 6:30. A science assembly is Wednesday and school spirit day is next Thursday, during which pupils may wear school shirt and jeans. There will be a pep rally and tailgate party. The week concludes Feb. 1 with a ski trip for grades 6-8. .
From Afghanistan to Iraq?
Meanwhile, there is a divergence in Washington between military chiefs and the Pentagons politicians. The military want to continue the bombing rather than risk their elite special forces in any numbers, in view of the risk of a costly guerrilla war with winter coming on. Their political masters want special forces action. Increasingly, they see the military as out of touch with political realities. Within Afghanistan, there is considerable integration of the bin Laden forces into the Taliban armed forces. There is little doubt that they, too, will have spread out widely. There are also reports that much of the network has dispersed, many of its personnel even quietly leaving Afghanistan for neighbouring countries to the North and East. A dispersal could last months or years. Given local support in countries such as Pakistan, network personnel would be almost impossible to track down.
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