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In music, the change in tone-quality between different registers of voices and of wind instruments, a natural defect which may be more or less successfully corrected by technical means.



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The US envoy to Kabul Zalmay Khalilzad, says the government has broken the back of the country's abusive provincial strongmen but concedes they will still influence voters in next week's Presidential election.
 
 
 
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