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...kind of like being a motivational speaker in a hospice.' BILL KELLER, executive editor of the New York Times, on discussing the fragile state of the newspaper industry...
...Because Woodstock's first half was honkingly bad. Richie Havens' "Freedom (Motherless Child)," a song he improvised onstage because other artists were stuck in traffic, is representative of the problem. Absent the day's biggest commercial acts - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan declined to participate - the bill tilted toward flute bands and folkies, and they played to a crowd the size of Reno, Nev., as if they were in a coffeehouse. A lot of the rock bands, meanwhile, were stoned out of their minds. (The Grateful Dead sound foggy, even for them.) At least...
...crowd for proving "that a half million kids can ... have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music," the concert had turned great. Not all of it - 40 years later and still no one can explain why Sha Na Na was on the bill - but enough so that the collective memory is founded in something real. Performing live for just the second time, at 4 a.m. no less, Crosby, Stills & Nash delivered a riveting "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." A few hours later, Jimi Hendrix treated the last 25,000 standing to their own national anthem...
...proposal that never got off the ground. Almost as quickly as the U.S. House of Representatives could add $330 million to the budget to bolster the government's luxury-jet fleet, public outcry prompted House leaders to strip the four proposed new aircraft from next year's defense-spending bill...
Business owners are also excited. Nancy Gardella, executive director of Martha's Vineyard's Chamber of Commerce, remembers how former President Bill Clinton's summers on the island gave a "tremendous boost" to the local economy and helped "turn the tide" on the island's real estate market in the early 1990s. She hopes Obama will be a regular visitor "for the next seven years...