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Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for Aug. 6:
1. "Mamma Mia! (The Movie Soundtrack)," Various Artists
2. "Conor Oberst," Conor Oberst
3. "Viva la Vida," Coldplay
4. "The Ghost Overground – EP," Jack's Mannequin
5. "Only Through the Pain," Trapt
6. "Songs for Tibet – The Art of Peace," Various Artists
7. "Breakout," Miley Cyrus
8. "Kala (Bonus Track Version)," M.I.A.
9. "Fasciinatiion," The Faint
10. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne

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By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — In a historic split verdict that sets the stage for dozens more war crimes trials, a U.S. military jury on Wednesday convicted Osama bin Laden's driver of aiding terror but acquitted him of conspiring with al-Qaida to commit worldwide terror.

Salim Hamdan, 37, bowed his head and wiped his eyes with his head scarf upon becoming the first man convicted at trial in the first U.S. war crimes tribunals since World War II.

From wikipedia:
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle) (August 7, 1911–June 16, 1979) was an American film director.

Coming from a radio background, Ray directed his first and only Broadway production, the Duke Ellington musical Beggar's Holiday, in 1946.

One year later, he directed his first film, They Live By Night. It was released two years later due to the chaotic conditions surrounding Howard Hughes' takeover of RKO Pictures. An almost impressionistic take on film noir, it was notable for its extreme empathy for society’s young outsiders (a recurring motif in Ray’s films). It was influential on the sporadically popular sub-genre often called “love on the run” movies, concerning as it does two young fugitive lovers on the run from the law. (Other examples are Gun Crazy, Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, and Robert Altman’s 1974 remake of They Live By Night, Thieves Like Us.)

Watch an interview with Nicholas Ray, free from youtube.com.