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...married one of his earliest proteges, the singer Aaliyah. She was apparently just 15 years old, but said she was 18; the marriage was annulled. But as Kelly's fame grew, so, too, did word on the street that he liked to prowl suburban shopping malls and even a downtown Chicago McDonald's for young women. Kelly's spokesman, Allan Mayer, told TIME earlier this week: "Look, he used to hang out at the Rock 'N Roll McDonald's - they'd get on his bus with his crew and hang out there. He realizes he can't do that anymore...
...uncommitted superdelegate in North Carolina said this week that pushing that button could push him away. "I do expect Sen. Obama to be the nominee," Brad Miller, the Congressman from North Carolina's 13th congressional district, told me Monday morning at his campaign office off an underground garage in downtown Raleigh. "And if 'electability' is code for being African American," he said, "I can't vote against him: I can't justify it to my African-American constituents or to myself...
...next key state, Indiana Democrats are starting to relish the prospect of playing a rare key role in the primary process. Jenny Weiser, the executive director of the state's Democratic party, says she moved the May 4 Jefferson-Jackson dinner from an 800-seat ballroom at the downtown Indianapolis Marriott to the city's convention center, where she expects more than 2,500 people will attend. In the last week, more than 1,000 new donations have come through the committee's website, many from Hamilton County, the affluent, Republican-dominated northern Indianapolis suburb where Obama has been campaigning...
...years. Today’s New York, of course, is nothing like it was 30—or even 15—years ago. For one, Rakowitz simply couldn’t afford to live in his old neighborhood in 2008. Furthermore, the old culture and climate of downtown Manhattan doesn’t exist anymore. Artist Dash Snow’s 2005 installation, “This Was Your Life,” takes the events of Rakowitz’s life as inspiration and tries to recreate the East Village of yesteryear. The piece is an amalgamated portrait...
...predecessors' commitment to peace and diplomacy as the best way to tackle world problems. But he will likely challenge political leaders to defend religious liberty as the first priority for building a peaceful future. Two days later, this singular religious figure, leader of 1 billion faithful, will travel downtown to witness the remains of what happens when faith is instead the most efficient weapon for sowing hatred and destruction...