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...always seen himself as a split-personality sprinter. There's 200 Michael, who puts a hoop in his ear, turns the hip-hop up and gets into trash-talk wars with the very willing Greene. Then there's 400 Michael, who listens to jazz before a race and spends evenings answering e-mail from fans. With Mr. Hyde now sidelined, mellow Dr. Jekyll will have extra time in Sydney at his keyboard...
Gore's aides are fond of saying that if he can just win, he will make a much better President than he makes a candidate. And he is a more multidimensional man than his public caricature suggests. His challenge isn't merely a charisma deficit or a tin ear or a knack for seeming phony even when he's being himself. It's that he must try to dispel at least five familiar myths about himself. Each is based on nuggets of truth, but Gore believes each fails to convey the essence of who he is. Is it possible that...
That's Wyclef: you can't pin him down, not to one instrument, not to one style, not even to one country. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. He's a rapper and a singer, an entertainer with an ear to the streets and an eye on the top of the charts. He has written and produced hits for Santana and Whitney Houston and has also worked with Destiny's Child and Sinead O'Connor. "He's like a chameleon," says Melky Jean, Wyclef's sister and frequent supporting vocalist...
...Ford's shaky balance. Onlookers noticed it as he emerged from the Convention Hall Tuesday night. A few hours later, just after midnight, he went to the emergency room of Philadelphia's Hahnemann University Hospital complaining of an earache and dizziness. Concluding that he had a sinus or inner-ear infection, doctors treated him with antibiotics and sent him off within an hour. But while their treatment might be considered reasonable in light of what he told them at the time, the 87-year-old former Chief Executive subsequently returned to the hospital with classic stroke symptoms...
...complaint will not be alone. I noticed several bizarre abuses of music during the Philadelphia convention. One morning I snuck into the arena and caught the orchestra rehearsing. It was quite surreal. Three tunes especially caught my ear...