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...dangerous to its efforts to win back disaffected white moderates. And his Rainbow Coalition is longer on enthusiasm than resources. Few other black leaders seem eager for a quixotic crusade that would probably end with a conservative Republican in power. Jackson himself would find that distasteful as a political epitaph. So the betting among insiders is that when Jackson presides at the next Rainbow Coalition conference in May, he will have worked out a rationale for reconciliation...
Punk today has a higher profile than anytime since the late 70s. Thanks to bands like Green Day and Offspring, it sells bigger than ever before. This unprecedented popularity has done wonders for Epitaph Records, an independent label which boasts two very successful punk acts: Offspring and Rancid. At a time when so many musical acts are labeled "rock influenced by punk," or "pop flirting with punk," Rancid could probably be best described as "punk flirting with punk-with a heavy dose of punk...
...songs which Rancid played from their self-titled debut album were on the whole less successful and less memorable. One of the best tunes of the evening, however, was "I Wanna Riot" which is currently only available on an Epitaph compilation CD, and as the b-side to "Roots Radical." A slow ska tune, "I Wanna Riot" came as a welcome relief to the slamming intensity of the rest of the show. The amazing thing was that the audience seemed to need it more than the band, which exhibited no signs of fatigue, even after racing through song after song...
...Somali people, meanwhile, will fend for themselves. "All of us hoped against hope the Somalis would get their house in order" by now, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman John Shalikashvili said today in Washington. "They're on their own." TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says the general's epitaph may apply to any risky U.S. humanitarian rescue mission to come: "It was a bleak and compelling testament that there is an end to our patience...
Many Republicans were loath even to repeat the dread word. So it was left to a lowly House staff member who handles welfare policy for the Republican conference to deliver its likely epitaph. Were Republican lawmakers serious about the orphanage option? "If they were, they have buttoned their lips. This thing has been mercilessly crucified," he says. "I would not be surprised if they strike the provision from the bill, because it's given us so much grief...