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...Devil in Hades. / You'll meet the the finest of gentlemen and the finest of ladies; / They'd rather be down below than up above - / Hades is full of thousands of / Joneses and Browns, O'Houlihans, Cohens and Bradys." Whether familiar or not, Stairway to Paradise has plenty to appeal to John Q. Public and John Q. Critic alike...
...champion Jeff Gordon, who recently passed Earnhardt Sr. on the career wins list, and defending champion Jimmie Johnson, as well as Kyle Busch and Casey Mears. With the four-team limit on owners imposed by NASCAR, either Busch or Mears would have to go, but Dale Jr.'s appeal to sponsors and fans would undoubtedly make up for their loss. It would, however, weird out a lot of fans on the Earnhardt - both senior and junior - side, who see Jeff Gordon as nothing less than the antichrist...
...leitmotif of Brown's political life. In 1994 he stepped aside to let Blair lead the party, persuaded that his media-savvy friend would appeal more widely to voters. Brown's supporters claim the Prime Minister reneged on a deal to stand aside after two terms to give Brown a turn at the wheel. Blair showed no inclination to budge until restive M.P.s, worried that his post-Iraq unpopularity was damaging the party, finally pressured him into announcing last September that he would go within a year...
Frederick sued the school for violation of his free-speech rights and won in the lower federal courts. But the Supreme Court accepted the school's appeal and is expected to rule on the case before July. It is the most significant high-court case since Tinker to test a school's authority to suppress student dissent, but that may be where the similarities end. "Tinker was all about explicitly political topics, and the courts were sympathetic about protecting students' fundamental political rights," says Arum. "It's quite different when you're talking about bong hits." Or, for that matter...
...1950s Gordon Scott, a Las Vegas lifeguard turned actor, re-created a literate Tarzan and won acclaim for sporting the loincloth in one of the series' best films, 1959's sweeping and suspenseful Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Scott, who faded into obscurity in the '60s, was aware that his appeal lay in his beefy pecs. "Tarzan was ideal for me," he said, "because I didn't have too much dialogue...