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...words of A&M Records president Ron Fair, who has produced both Carlton and teen-pop goddess Christina Aguilera, "The same kids who two years ago were buying 'N Sync and Christina Aguilera records are responding to styles of music that are more song- and artist-driven. They're two years older, and the realism of singers singing their own songs has a lot of appeal. They haven't heard that music sung by their peers before...
...expert close to the Vatican says some there perceive a "guillotine" attitude in the U.S. that sacrifices priests' rights to public opinion. It may not bode well that one of the most interested Vatican Cardinals is Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a papal contender who has hinted that the crisis is driven mostly by the American press...
...fifth year of tuition-free classes. Elsewhere, thousands of college students have to shell out big bucks to go to grad school. The number of students who took the Graduate Record Examinations, a requirement for many graduate programs, jumped 18% this year. But the glut of applicants has driven down acceptance rates, which at the University of Buffalo Law School, for example, have dropped to 30%, from 60% three years...
...them is the Sacramento Kings, whose up-tempo team game, run by the Kidd-like guard Mike Bibby, put them into Game 7 with the star-driven Lakers of Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. Either of these Western teams seems to have too much talent for the Nets to handle. Yet Kidd knows it will take a championship ring to satisfy his critics, who have been expecting big things from him since he was a high school phenom in the Bay Area. "The shoe fits perfectly for us," he says. "We're the underdogs. We've been put down...
...Whenever I hear somebody on a cop show say, 'Get on the ground, dirtbag,' I think, 'Oh, for Christ's sake, I'm an adult,'" says Chiklis. More important, The Shield did what network cop shows have lately abandoned: it created a richly imagined world with continuing story lines, driven by L.A.'s roiling racial politics--achieving a payoff far bigger than solving the murder of the week...