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...most often that way in the Bush family. Just when the media and political power schemers figure the father and son have their heads together in some shadowy corner dividing up the world's leaders for telephone pleas, they talk family, dogs and how the bass are doing in the Crawford pond. Thursday night, No. 41 was off in Canada hunting pheasants with friends, including former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a deliberate response to No. 43's national call to keep life as normal as possible. Bush and son are both hunters, yet another bond of sorts between these...
...Randy Bass...
...Others have come close, and failed. In 1985, Randy Bass, an American playing for the Hanshin Tigers, was within one home run of tying Oh's mark, with two games to play. As destiny would have it, those final games were against the Tokyo Giants, whose manager was the very same Oh. Bass had nine at bats; he was walked six times. The pitchers were throwing balls so far out of the strike zone that Bass couldn't reach them. At one point, he held his bat upside down to show his disgust. "They apparently didn't want an American...
Badmarsh & Shri are an unlikely team: the Yemeni-Indian Ali, 34, grew up in East London listening to black dance music before becoming a DJ; Sriram, who moved to London from India in 1997, plays bass and has tastes that range from Rush to Herbie Hancock. After meeting in 1998, they decided to record together--Ali spinning and mixing, Sriram laying down bass lines and melodies--and within a month they had finished Dancing Drums. "Shri became my human sampler," Ali says. "Instead of sampling from vinyl, I sampled from...
...strums his acoustic guitar as if it were liable to crumble in his arms. On Music Typewriter (Hannibal), the first album by his group, Moreno Veloso + 2, his sweetness is offset by the steely rhythmic support provided by Domenico Lancelloti on electric drums and Alexandre Kassin on electric bass. In addition, Veloso's lyrics flow in both warm and cold, bristling with restraint one moment and full of affection and vulnerability the next. On Arrivederci, he sings, in Portuguese, "I don't like you that much/But every time you leave me/I confess I can't forget you, girl...