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...nuisance,' Britain's Guardian wrote of its U.S. correspondent, Alistair Cooke. 'He telephones his copy at the last moment. He says that he will be in Chicago and turns up in Los Angeles ... If all his colleagues were like him, production of this paper would cease.' But, the Guardian conceded, 'we think he's worth it.' Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC ... Since his BBC broadcasts are beamed...
...cool fusion of electronic dance and hip-hop beats with traditional Indian folk sounds. So popular is Rekha, 33, that her parties have become tourist attractions. "I can go anywhere in the country," she says, "and someone will go, 'Oh, I've been to Basement Bhangra.'" At Sonotheque in Chicago, Brian Keigher, 31, spins a popular fusion style known as "Asian underground"--fast, irresistibly danceable music studded with sitars and thumping tablas. Wade your way through the crush on the dance floor, and you will find Indian students, Pakistani locals from Devon Avenue, white clubgoers from the North Side...
...just as the Italians, Irish, Germans, Danes and others have. That multiethnicity is what makes America great. I suggest that Professor Huntington search elsewhere for elements that corrode U.S. culture. He might start with Jerry Springer and some TV shows that ridicule our core values. MIGUEL GOMEZ WINEBRENNER Chicago...
...national chains are undergoing a massive restructuring that will determine which among them survive. "We've made a few mistakes," concedes Safeway CEO Steve Burd, who was the industry darling for years until his cost-cutting skills sucked the life out of recent acquisitions, including Dominick's in Chicago and Genuardi's in Philadelphia. Revenues at the 1,800-store chain edged up 2%, to $35.6 billion last year, as the company logged $170 million in losses. With several big pension funds calling for his head, Burd embarked on a two-week road show last month to convince investors that...
...against Yale in 1968—was an All-American baseball player with the Crimson. “A big guy at 6’3, 235 lb, he was drafted seven times and spent seven years in the Bigs as a catcher with the Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves...