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...musicians who took advantage of that freedom knew they were making noble music. Swing boasted Duke Ellington, Earl Hines and Count Basie, the rarest of rarities--magnanimous men within a democracy. The same men were largely dependent on that democracy for their nobility. Within what other regime could the son of a coachman--the grandson of a slave!--become a duke...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The Rites of Springfest | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Blair Underwood, (6) who played a modern dreadlocked Jesus in 1992's The Second Coming, which was narrated by James Earl Jones (O.K., we're cheating), who was in Conan the Barbarian with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Degrees of Jesus | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...there is life after death even for politicians, one has to assume that former Louisiana Governors Huey and Earl Long, the first politician-kings of the banana republic of Louisiana, were watching last week. With testimony about cash left in Dumpsters and hidden under frozen ducks, and good old-fashioned bagmen bundling and transporting the loot, it all seemed refreshingly honest compared with the deceit of PACs, soft money and other modern-day shams. Edwards' wife Candy, who at 35 looks young enough to be his granddaughter, took it all in from the front row. His son Stephen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Stakes Game | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

Going along for the ride on every trip is Earl Nickles, a train buff and local barber who'll give you an on-train trim for a $5 donation. Most of the streamliners of yesteryear had barbershops, Nickles explains. They were "an amenity for business travelers from the '30s to the late '50s. It was all part of the time when train travel was gracious" www.overlandtrail.com 800-KEY-RAIL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: 12 Terrific Train Trips | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Somewhere in hell, James Earl Ray must be laughing his fool head off. The U.S. Department of Justice is completing its review of the "new evidence" that Martin Luther King Jr.'s family claimed would prove that a government conspiracy--and not Ray--plotted the murder of the great civil rights leader. Its report, due out in a few weeks, concludes that the Kings' allegations are not "credible" and provide no basis for new criminal charges. In other words, they are hogwash. Considering that these lurid fantasies sprang from the fertile imagination of Ray's former lawyer William Pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Have a Scheme | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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