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...doesn't really matter what the rules are. There's an appearance issue here, and that's where Bill Clinton should know better," said Chuck Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public Integrity. "This is supposedly the kind of thing he was going to end -- politics as usual and hanging out with wealthy contributors...
...With rent control gone, it's a different ballgame," said member Chuck R. Colbert. "This election is an important one, but it's also a scary...
...idea of creating a major museum dedicated to rock music is a relatively recent one. In 1983 a group of record-industry professionals founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to honor musical greats; the first inductees (including Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Chuck Berry) were selected in January 1986. But even as the selections were made and the institution's first all-star jam held, the hall had no actual residence. In May 1986 the Hall of Fame board, after considering such sites as New York City and Memphis, Tennessee, decided to locate in Cleveland. Ostensibly, the city...
Along with the music, visitors will get an education. The museum places heavy emphasis on rock's roots. One exhibit, called "The Beat Goes On," consists of several touch-screen computers showing video clips of rockers along with the performers who influenced them--Chuck Berry, for example, is linked with saxophonist Louis Jordan. Other exhibits are devoted to important rock precursors, such as blues greats Lead Belly and Howlin' Wolf. There are plenty of intriguing curios on display as well--such as the Who drummer Keith Moon's grade school report card, saying he "is inclined to play the fool...
...audience to show off the number on the back of the uniform his mother had made for him--he wore No. 6 when he first came up to the Yankees as a 19-year-old rookie. In 1953 he slugged the longest home runs ever measured, 565 ft., off Chuck Stobbs of the Washington Senators, and in 1956 he won the rare Triple Crown (.353 batting average, 52 homers, 130 runs batted in). He accomplished all this even though he played in pain all the time...