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Sting delivers another tasty, variegated bunch of adult rock songs on "Sacred Love" (A&M). He's playing the bad guy on "Stolen Car," empathizing with a runaway wife on "Never Coming Home," connecting with his/our romantic side on "Send Your Love" and the especially entralling "Book of My Life" and drubbing the government's war-on-everything philosophy with "This War." Good show. -------------------- "This War" You've got the mouth of a she wolf Inside the mask of an innocent lamb You say your heart is all compassion But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram Yet you always made a profit baby...

An honor student whose talent for poetry and passion for peace made him a favorite at Hunter College died yesterday after being gunned down on a Harlem streetcorner. The killer pulled a 9-mm. handgun and shot Matthew Hall, 18, once in the back after some heated words on the corner of 126th St. and Fifth Ave. shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, police said. Hall had just left a weekly meeting of the Universal Zulu Nation with some pals from school before he was shot about a block away. "We have no real motive," said one investigator. "We know he was...