Word: aikens
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...overexcited and a little into just having a good time. Maybe we took small cultural differences--new slang, new fashions, new music--and, as our parents did, misinterpreted them. The Idol team is already planning a Bob Hope--Bing Crosby--style buddy musical comedy for Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, the winner and runner-up of the second season of Idol. It might turn out that you can't lose money underestimating the niceness of teens. --By Joel Stein
...week, they've really been disparaging Fox, which has come from the ratings basement on the strength of "Joe Millionaire" and "American Idol." Fox, obviously, is not afraid to put reality front and center. Seacrest bragged about ?Idol's? ratings, then introduced "Idol 2" finalists Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, live by satellite from Los Angeles...
...England Poetry Club reading. The NEPC, founded in 1913 by Amy Lowell, Robert Frost, and Conrad Aiken, sponsors the oldest poetry reading series in the country. Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway at Trowbridge...
...leather seats while nibbling on deli sandwiches and sipping their choice of eight gourmet coffees. But they're not flying first class; they're taking the bus. The 27-seat motor coaches offer an alternative to airport-security hassles and delays, says Dale Bunce, CEO of ExecConnect America, the Aiken, S.C., company that operates the service. The trip costs $129 round trip and takes 2 hr. 40 min. (vs. $614 for a 1-hr. flight in coach). Bus travelers can watch cable TV and use Internet-access ports at each seat. And there's an attendant on board who gladly...
...Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, which represents published book authors, explained that copyright protection is necessary to compensate writers or “they will be forced to turn to other lines of work...