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Still another recent defector from the ranks of the hopeful is Kent Jeffrey, a Delta Air Lines pilot and UFO buff best known for his "Roswell Declaration," a petition urging the Federal Government to promptly release all documents pertaining to Roswell...
...Michael Jordan put in the other night against the Utah Jazz crystallize the notion that we are blessed. It's not enough that he plays every game triple-teamed by the pressures of age (34), a fifth title and his own Airness. Needing a victory last Wednesday in the Delta Center, where the Jazz never lose, Jordan stayed on the floor despite a debilitating viral infection, rallied the Bulls from 16 points down and finished with 38 points, including a three-pointer with 25 seconds left that gave his team the lead for good. "I didn't even think...
...heavyweight advertisers are headed in different directions, including Domino's Pizza, Delta Air Lines, Reebok and the ABC television network. Account changes are rippling at a record pace through the U.S. advertising industry, which handled $52 billion in domestic media billings last year. (Billings measure clients' ad spending, on which agencies take a cut as fees; 15% used to be standard, although the rate varies.) The U.S. Army, beset by sex scandals and an increasingly hard time recruiting new soldiers, is putting its $80 million account--now held by Young & Rubicam--up for review. That couldn't be more fitting...
There is a secret at the heart of all John Fogerty's songs, an unbroken connection to the magic and mystery in the American musical past that conjoins Delta blues and garage bands, urban riffs and pedal steel, folklore and the Brill Building. You can find its point of fine convergence in the fierceness of Fogerty's singing, the grace of his imagination, the implacable drive of his spirit. He can do what only the greatest American songwriters can: make music that sounds, even when you first hear it, as if you've known it forever. Music that's more...
Trying to dredge Blue Moon Swamp out of himself, Fogerty took several trips--"pilgrimages," he calls them--to the Mississippi Delta. "I was chasing ghosts," he says. Perhaps it was those ghosts of Robert Johnson and all the other bluesmen who drove off his demons, and produced a miracle that all of us can share...