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...turns out that the savants had a lot to learn about retrograde, reprobate ^ rock 'n' roll. Bat II slipped through a crack in the pop Zeitgeist to occupy the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart, above Nirvana and the other pricey rockers half Meat Loaf's age (46). Somebody must like this stuff, someone who remembers what rock once did -- and still could -- sound and feel like. Three, maybe four chords; an amoral homily twisted into a catch phrase; adolescent yearning and ecstasy so confused that they become harmony...
...crack-down-hard approach is usually a big vote getter. It helped mightily to elect Giuliani and Allen, and Washington State voters approved a "three strikes and you're out" law that mandates life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of a third violent felony. Yet would-be tough guys can lose too. John Derus based his campaign for mayor of Minneapolis entirely on a law-and-order appeal but was swamped by Sayles Belton, who pledged an increase in social services...
...English fled to the lobby, where Drayton allegedly caught up with him, took a shot and missed. Released on $15,000 bail, Drayton, who once served 20 days in jail for punching his girlfriend, checked into the Betty Ford Center. His record company says he is seeking treatment for crack addiction...
...trying to build a future," said RobertGroden, an expert on the photographic evidencerelating to the case. "It's as though we're tryingto build a skyscraper, and there's a crack in thatfoundation, and that crack is the WarrenCommission's report...
Harvard Square has people who will sell you LSD, coke, crack, weed, 'shrooms, speed or ice. But in the Square, the drug of choice...