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...clock signals 11 a.m., and work-weary Dallasites bide time until their noon lunch break, a smattering of songs streams over their radios. Pink kicks off a four-song music block, followed by Lenny Kravitz, Tina Turner and Led Zeppelin. These days radio listeners usually have to surf different stations to hear those four sounds, as the range of genres doesn't fall within a typical station's playlist. But not at one Dallas station--a station that has topped the ratings charts for five of the nine months since it switched formats...
...Lincoln Theatre. The Before Harlem There Was U Street walking tour gives you a peek inside (the theater's been restored and again hosts performances), as well as offering stops at two of Duke Ellington's childhood homes, the African American Civil War Memorial (the museum is down the block) and the Thurgood Marshall Center--a building that was the nation's first YMCA for blacks and Langston Hughes' home during the '20s. The tour costs $10 and meets the first and third Saturdays of the month at the U Street/ Cardozo Metro station at 13th and U streets...
...student-led filibuster has continued for eight straight days at Princeton, during which students have been speaking around the clock to protest Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s proposed procedural change that would make it difficult for Democrats to block President Bush’s judicial nominees...
During a Senate filibuster, members of the minority party delay a vote put forth by the majority party by taking advantage of their unlimited time at the podium. Senators often speak for hours, even reading from encyclopedias and cookbooks, in order to block votes...
...said the protestors believe the ability to block a vote is important because it prevents judges “who really are extremists and really quite unqualified” from winning lifelong court appointments...