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...talk about American music without talking about Black people and Black musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soulman Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big Mama Thornton to Jimi Hendrix) and the fact that edginess and rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable - has there really been anything interesting happening...
...attempt to link the site's language directly to past violence, point to the history of radical anti-abortion terrorism: A doctor's name goes up on the site, and sooner or later he's shot dead. His name is then crossed off. It's that pattern, Planned Parenthood et al. argue, that establishes a direct causal relationship between the site's apparent directive and actual bloodshed. The defendants argue there's nothing in the site's language that incites violence, that the list is a purely informational vehicle for anti-abortion activists...
...more Kennedys. Representative Patrick Kennedy, one of the party's most prolific fund-raisers, and Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who is reportedly testing the waters for a 2002 gubernatorial campaign, met with news outlets before their kin took the stage. And as they spoke with Larry King et al., the message was clear: A new generation of Kennedys is on the scene - diminished, perhaps, by their distance from the glories of the past - purposeful, committed, and, it would appear, ready for prime time...
Posted August 4, 2000, 2:05 a.m. ET...
Posted August 1, 2000 12:15 a.m. ET There is nothing about Laura Bush that brings to mind that other political wife - the one whose name draws hisses from the generally well-mannered crowds here in Philadelphia and whose candidacy for the U.S. Senate is the object of convention-wide derision. Just as George W. Bush's campaign strategists take great pains to portray his vision for America as a 180-degree departure from that of Bill Clinton, Laura Bush's public image is a careful response to a widespread distaste (and for many at this week's GOP convention...