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...protest outside Sony's Manhattan headquarters, where he called Mottola a racist. A few days later, at a conference to combat racism in the music industry, Jackson charged that "they" had sabotaged his career after he outsold white artists like Elvis and the Beatles. "Overnight, they called me a freak, a homosexual, a child molester. It's a conspiracy." He also declared, "I know I'm black." His newfound self-awareness failed to generate compassion in the music world, where most people believe his true concern is not black but green--that he is trying to get financial concessions from...
...freak Memorial Day blizzard falls, nearly a foot of new snow. I hurry out into the forest, searching. After a few hours, I discover a set of fresh bear tracks. The bear is just ahead of me and is moving slowly, unconcerned, though the wind is not in my favor. Trees are snapping all around me under the heavy load of wet snow, a sound like occasional artillery in some newly announced or perhaps ancient and ongoing war. But I am not asking for the return of 100,000 grizzlies to the American wilderness, I'm looking for just...
...perennial crackdown on naughty dancing is under way. At Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Md., administrators concerned about the rise in so-called freak dancing, a hip-grinding, sex-simulating step, recently increased the number of chaperones and gave them flashlights to bust dirty dancers. Several Los Angeles high schools have benched the C-walk, a hip-hop dance step popularized by rappers like Lil Bow Wow. The C stands for Crip--the Crips are a notorious L.A. gang credited with introducing the dance at least a decade ago. It has long since crossed gang lines, but school officials...
...broadcast nightly during the half hour before midnight. The broadcasts will not be heard by the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel - the 25,000 Jews who live in Iran itself. The move is partly a response to Israel radio's broadcasts in Farsi. CHINA Freak Floods At least 205 people died and hundreds are missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their...
...throats. They taught him their colorful creation myth: the tribe was born of a lovelorn she-dragon impregnated by the wind. One grandmother recalls a European journey that prefigures Khoo Thwe's own. In the 1930s she joined a troupe of Padaung women who toured England in a circus freak show?although grandma never doubted who the real freaks were. "The English are a very strange tribe," she concluded, amused by her hosts' attempts to appease the spirits by drinking huge quantities...