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DIED. TERRY MELCHER, 62, record producer and song-writer who collaborated with Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys; of melanoma; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Melcher, the son of actress Doris Day, produced the Byrds' version of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man and co-wrote the Beach Boys' pop hit Kokomo for the 1988 film Cocktail...
...sure that we win and [the other side] loses. There's nothing wrong with both sides getting together and reaching a compromise. Both sides can win. But we don't think like that. When I was here [in the House, as a Congressman in the 1980s] and [minority leader] Bob Michel and [Speaker] Tip O'Neill were running the House, they spoke [to each other] more in one day than the current leaders speak in a whole year...
...John Kerry's imprudent campaign demand that the 9/11 commission recommendations be enacted immediately-without any input from, or negotiation with, the entrenched panjandrums of the intelligence community. "You can't do intelligence reform without a clear vision and direct marching orders from the President," 9/11 commission member Bob Kerrey told me last week. "If you create an Intelligence Czar, but the President doesn't want to back him fully and give him real authority to build the network, then you might as well deep-six the bill...
...itself), went straight to No. 1 in Britain and raised some $18 million. We Are the World, an even schmaltzier American effort, and the accompanying Live Aid rock concert, screened to 1.5 billion people around the globe, raised millions more. Band Aid, the brainchild of scruffy Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and electropop pioneer Midge Ure, eventually pulled in more than $144 million, most of which bought emergency food for Ethiopia. "I once said that we would be more powerful in memory than in reality," Geldof remarked in 1992 when the original Band Aid Trust was laid to rest...
...heads of the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) announced at yesterday’s Undergraduate Council meeting that Sunday’s sold-out Bob Dylan concert was a financial success...