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Drew: Well, we're a pretty diverse group. All of us really have different favorites, which is one of the neat things about the band. One of the things that brought us all together was...certainly we came out of the funk movement in the late seventies. We were inspired by the rebellion of the Clash and the Sex Pistols. We used to do a lot of Gang of Four songs and a lot of Joy Division songs. We also did a lot of reggae music. We like the social protest of Bob Marley and the Gladiators and the Mighty...
CHIEF OF STAFF James Baker may not have "orchestrated" the fishing trip made by State Department officials through Bill Clinton's confidential passport records four weeks before the election. But he knew about it, as did his political aide Janet Mullins, says a report by Sherman Funk, the department's inspector general. And neither did anything to stop...
...dirty tricks began in September, when Bush partisans, including White House aides, began circulating unsubstantiated rumors that Clinton had contemplated renouncing his citizenship to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. Funk found no "conspiracy" to damage Clinton. But he said Steven Berry, the department's Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, coached Republican Congressman Gerald B. Solomon on how to word a Sept. 29 letter that would provide State with a fig leaf of official justification for a search of Clinton's files. The next day Elizabeth Tamposi, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs, seized on Solomon's "request...
...1960s and '70s, the soul sounds of Detroit and Philadelphia were the glory of American pop. From the funk styles of James Brown to the fervid testifying of Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, soul music was something you could not only hear but also feel: rhythm without blues, emotion without sentimentality. Then in the '80s a few big record companies discovered they could rack up sales by substituting hyperactive beats and overdressed arrangements for soul's honest impact. Subtle vocal stylists gave way to crooners; soul gave way to dance music, marketed mainly to black listeners. Even powerful singers like...
MUSIC The Prince of funk has a raunchy, catchy new album...