Dunlap introduced the Brownderville Brothers, Greg Alan and Eric - two Delta-blues-wailing, young guys from the flatland farming community of Pumpkin Bend, Ark. The host noted that Greg Alan, a published poet and harmonica player, is working on a master's in fine arts at Ole Miss.Earlier this month, Abbas announced that talks on forming a unity government between Hamas and Fatah had broken down. Last weekend, he raised the possibility of calling early elections, drawing angry protests by Hamas, which said he does not have the authority to dissolve the Hamas-dominated parliament."This is an ugly and inhuman crime perpetrated by a bunch of lowlifes," Abbas said at his West Bank office in Ramallah. "We condemn it vehemently.""It's almost a throwback to the old-time radio," says program host Jim Dees, a local magazine writer and raconteur."We saw fire coming from one car. We started screaming and children started running," said Fadwa Nablus, 12, who had been walking to school with her 9-year-old brother.One of Reed's lifelong friends, Greenville native Jessica Brent, played her acoustic guitar and sang a simple, compelling tune about kinfolk in rural Webster County, Miss.An Abbas aide, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, said he was concerned the attack will lead to a large-scale confrontation. "If this continues, it will lead to our worst nightmare, internal fighting," Erekat said. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Palestinian gunmen killed three young sons of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday, pumping dozens of bullets into their car as it passed through a street crowded with schoolchildren in an apparent botched assassination attempt that could ignite widespread factional fighting.<a target="_top" href=""><img src="" width="300" height="250" border="0"></a>"This is an ugly and inhuman crime perpetrated by a bunch of lowlifes," Abbas said at his West Bank office in Ramallah. "We condemn it vehemently."His wife, Linda, was dressed in black as she received mourners at their house. She choked back tears when she looked at pictures of her sons - the couple's only children.In a statement, the intelligence service stopped just short of accusing Hamas, saying the shooting was the latest in a series of attacks on intelligence officers that the service has blamed on the Islamic group and its allies.Woodward, we learn, was the methodical, orderly one, systematically poring through the documents that eventually helped lead to the downfall of President Richard Nixon. Bernstein was the rumpled, spur-of-the-moment, full-speed-ahead one, sometimes ready to jump into the pool without seeing if it was filled with water. What makes Woodward and Bernstein different from other books about Watergate was Shepard's journey through their Watergate papers, which the pair sold to the University of Texas for $5 million, reportedly because Bernstein needed the money."I have no words. Words stop at the extent of this crime," the boys' father, Baha Balousheh, told The Associated Press. "I am a father who has lost his children"Binford (Snooky) Williams, a 75-year-old retired insurance agent from nearby Water Valley, and his wife, Mary Lou, go every chance they get and are financial supporters. He says they like to soak up the eclectic blend of entertainment.
