Word: arizona
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...heaviest mark on Top 40 radio and is already in the Top Ten. Other tunes on The Joshua Tree (the title was inspired by a California desert town where '70s Rocker Gram Parsons died) are likely to keep it company. U2 launched a scheduled 18-month world tour in Arizona just three weeks ago, will play the U.S. through mid-May, perform in Europe most of the summer, then return to the States in September. "I guarantee you that | when U2 comes back this record will be bigger than ever," says Andy Denemark, a director of programming at NBC Radio...
...also taking on distinct phenomenological proportions. Even in Arizona, in the earliest stages, with Bono's voice raggedy from overrehearsing and with the band searching for a solid connection with both the audience and one another, there was a final fusion of performer and spectator that is one mark of great rock 'n' roll. Some of the songs, especially earlier efforts, can get tongue-tied by the unwieldy ambition of their lyrics and the discursiveness of the melody line. The audience shares a devotional intensity, however, that anchors the concert as a whole experience even when the tunes range free...
...manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. But Rehnquist didn't win them all, and his first years on the court were often spent in lonely dissents. And over the years, he mellowed. In 2000, he angered conservatives by personally penning the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police to read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling he had earlier savaged. Rehnquist took his job very seriously, writing books and donning special judicial robes with raised gold stripes. But his greatest skill was unseen. In an increasingly fractious political era--mirrored...
...battle in 1986, when President Reagan nominated him to be Chief Justice. This time Democrats tried to prove that Rehnquist had lied during the 1971 confirmation process-not about the segregation memo but about whether he had intimidated minority voters as a Republican poll watcher during the 1960s in Arizona, where he was practicing law at the time. Rehnquist's critics produced affidavits alleging that he harassed voters at a predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters in that period. Democrats found 14 witnesses...
...Rehnquist's conservatism mellowed over the years. His early 8-1 dissents, so provocatively right-wing in tone, deliquesced in later years into establishmentarian opinions defending many precedents-even liberal ones. For example, he angered conservatives in 2000 when he personally wrote the opinion upholding Miranda v. Arizona, the decision requiring police to read those they take into custody their rights, a ruling Rehnquist had savaged over the years. "Miranda has become embedded in routine police practice to the point where the warnings have become part of our national culture," Rehnquist wrote in an opinion that the fiery young Rehnquist...