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...white kids will not go to a black show," says Ted Gardener, producer of Lollapalooza. "They'll buy the records, but they won't go see the band. They're afraid they might get killed. And some black kids feel the same way about white shows. Our attempt is to try to bring new styles of music together." The sound track to the movie Judgment Night features collaborations between rappers and rockers, including one by Seattle rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot and local band Mudhoney. "Alternative and rap grew out of the same thing," says...
...three priorities in life,'' says Bill Daniels, an investment banker who specializes in cable-TV properties. ''His family, his business and his sailboat. That's it.'' Malone's brilliance and belligerence have become the stuff of legend. In 1991, for example, Malone was outbid by a rival in his attempt to acquire the Learning Channel. His response: TCI began dropping the Learning Channel from its local cable systems. The tactic killed his rival's deal, and TCI's 49%- owned Discovery Channel later purchased the Learning Channel at a steep discount. Malone is also known to cook up complex deals...
...Border Patrol. Agents posted around the clock along a 20-mile stretch of the Rio Grande have virtually sealed off entry to illegal aliens, who used to stream into El Paso and adjacent New Mexico by the thousands from neighboring Ciudad Juarez. By scaring off Mexicans before they attempt to cross the river, agents have reduced their arrests from as many as 1,000 a day to an average of 135. El Paso officials envision giant savings in aliens' social costs -- now 20% of the budget -- if the border remains sealed. The crackdown has drawn overwhelming support from El Paso...
...TIME conference, mutual assured destruction (MAD) ''is not a policy but a condition.'' There is something almost poetic in the concept: for the first time in history, two major enemies have kept the peace by keeping themselves vulnerable. Not that either is comfortable with that vulnerability. But previous attempts to seek defensive protection from nuclear delivery systems have merely spawned new types of such systems. In the 1950s and '60s, the superpowers threatened each other with bombers and defended themselves with antiaircraft installations. But air defenses only stimulated the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Then both sides developed antiballistic missiles...
...strategy with great success at the end of the Vietnam War. "He ran in '72 as the guy who was leaving, and [Democratic candidate George] McGovern decided he wanted to surrender," Norquist said. "Leaving beat surrendering." In the coming months, the political landscape is now primed for McCain to attempt the same argument...