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...know, I know. You think I have lost it. You think I have been eating too much Harvard Dinning Services food. Well, let me tell you that I am at least as sane as my schizophrenic fellow editor Downtown Eric Brown Knows is any day of the week. And, don't worry, I'm not a Chiefs fan either...
Divorced in 1982 from fellow musician Eric Taylor after a six-year marriage, she lives alone, either at her century-old farmhouse outside Nashville, Tennessee, or in her loft in downtown Dublin, where she is a wildly popular member of the burgeoning Irish country-folk scene. Most of the time she travels, which is where she gets her best musical ideas. "I do most of my writing on the road," she says. "It doesn't matter where I am. It all comes at one time, words and music. I think of my songs as little gifts that I reach...
...Daddy") Amin fled Uganda in 1979 with his wife and 23 children for sanctuary in Saudi Arabia. Occasionally he dons traditional Arab garb and joins other Ugandan exiles for coffee in a downtown Jeddah hotel. A devout Muslim, Amin lives quietly in a modest villa outside the city, tending a vegetable patch and feeding his goats and chickens...
...Emperor of the Central African Republic in 1979, was released from prison last September. During his six years of incarceration he underwent a mystical conversion to Christianity and declared himself the 13th Apostle of Christ. He lives alone, under informal guard, in a small three-bedroom house in downtown Bangui...
...herself just how easy it would be to get a fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake IDs were hers for the asking. "They would have cost anywhere from $10 to $60," she says, "and I could have had them within the hour...