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...terribly surprising when a couple of kids like Britney and Justin or a couple of oddballs like Angelina and Billy Bob split up. But LANCE ARMSTRONG and SHERYL CROW had seemed different--steeled by age (he's 34; she's 43) and serious about their commitments (seven Tour de France wins and nine Grammys don't come easy). Yet after a five-month engagement, Armstrong and Crow called it quits in a statement asking for "privacy during this very difficult time." O.K., though we are curious about what happens to the 6-carat rock she showed Barbara Walters last year...
...Toluca Lake, Calif. The self-taught Nicholas Brothers leaped to prominence in the '30s, performing flips and splits with ease. Their acrobatics landed them roles in nearly 30 films--including 1943's Stormy Weather, whose finale features a flawless leapfrog down a spiral staircase. But because of Jim Crow--era practices, the African-American brothers rarely got starring or speaking parts...
...others--which have bottle-fed the fractionals concept for more than a decade. The motivation? Financing expensive hotel projects is easier and far more lucrative this way. "The time-share business has been a very good business for these companies because it tends to have high margins," says Bill Crow, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Three to five to six years after you've opened, you've made your money back--compared to the 10 years or more it usually takes [with a hotel-only project...
...heart of black Atlanta. Wallace (Mad Bear) Anderson spoke for a poor Iroquois confederation of upstate New York. A deputy came from the bedside of Cesar Chavez, who had barely survived a 25-day fast in penance for violent lapses by striking California farmworkers. Tillie Walker and Rose Crow Flies High represented Plains tribes from North Dakota, while Dennis Banks led a delegation of Anishinabes. During introductions, King aide Bernard Lafayette whispered to King what he had gleaned about basic differences among Puerto Ricans as distinct from Mexicans (Chicanos), or the defining cause of the Assiniboine/Lakota leader Hank Adams...
...Robinson Delany, who advocated black separatism, to Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael. But Shelby goes beyond defining the role of black solidarity in past struggles and explores how these different approaches to black unity can be modified and molded into a working framework for blacks living in post-Jim Crow America...