Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everybody here overplays marijuana, like it's some horrible thing," says Melinda, a senior who wants to attend an East Coast college. "It's not just something that 'bad' people do. My dad went to an Ivy League school, and he and my mom both tried it in high school." Her parents' concern, she says, is that she'll buy pot laced with speed or crack. But Melinda, who seems representative of the average user at New Trier, smokes only occasionally and seems able to take it or leave it. "The people with problems are the ones who want being...
Death and taxes aside, two things were long a certainty on the gulf coast of Mississippi: if you died in Biloxi, you would be buried by Jeremiah O'Keefe; if you died in adjacent Gulfport, Bob Riemann would do the honors. A sometimes bitter rivalry existed between their families, but both names remained beacons in the fog of surprise and grief that overcame people upon the death of parents, spouses, siblings and children. Then something happened to Riemann's empire. His mortuaries still bore the name Riemann, and his sons Mike and David still managed the business. Hearses came...
...most uptempo song on House of Music is the first single, "Let's Get Down," a funky, danceable track that features West Coast rapper DJ Quick interspersed between Saadiq's playful crooning. "Til Last Summer" is a tender ode to lost and found love with a soaring chorus that faintly echoes "It Never Rains...
...November 5, 1996, the American people, in a coast-to-coast electoral landslide, re-elected a Democratic president for the first time in more than a half century. And, although Congress remains in Republican hands, more Americans voted Democrat for Congress than Republican. The American people sent the message that they are pleased with the steady progress Bill Clinton has made as our leader, supportive of his proposals for reform and tired of petty partisanship...
...posted bios, concert-tour schedules and daily voice clips from Korn's lead singer, Jonathan Davis, and created a special electronic bulletin board for die-hard Korn fans. Not only has the Website been a big hit ("The Internet traffic is melting us down," says Epic's West Coast general manager Steve Rennie), but record sales have also taken off. Korn's new CD, Life Is Peachy, broke onto Billboard's album chart at No. 3, selling 152,000 in its first two weeks...