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Then something strange happened: the crowds at his shows started growing. College kids were showing up again. Fans began making a day of it in the parking lot, competing to see who could wear the most outlandish costume. Buffett's musical sidekick, harmonica-ace Greg ("Fingers") Taylor, saw the change when he rejoined the band after taking a year off to "learn how not to drink." Taylor and Buffett were riding in a limo through a Midwestern parking lot "and all these insane rituals are going on around us. Winnebagos with shark fins on top. People dancing. Buffett turned...
...more in grants than was possible under the old formula. Families with an annual income of less than $40,000 will receive substantially more in grant aid. "This new formula answers a question schools have heard middle-class students asking," says Tim McDonough of the American Council on Education (ACE): "'What about...
...does Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told have to be such an ugly, venomous affair? Snoop has been in the red-hot center of the hip-hop world for six years. When Snoop was with his old label, the troubled Death Row Records, working with ace producer Dr. Dre, his lyrics were often profane, yes, but at least the music had bounce and life and a sense of almost nihilistic joy. Da Game is a long recitation of familiar gangsterisms--slapping "bitches," giving shoutouts to "niggas," dealing drugs, killing enemies and, of course, getting paid...
DIED. MARION CARL, 83, intrepid World War II flying ace and postwar test pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
Much of the joking came from the thought that Ace might end up subsidizing a bunch of guys in gold chains and heavy cologne taking the drug for "enhancement" purposes, as one more hedge against middle-age insecurity, like Rogaine. The hospital will be weeding them out. Anyway, what they're looking for is a pill to cure rejection. Not even Ace has enough money for that...