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...cancer found on his lung and subsequently received treatment for a tumor on his brain, including a controversial form of radiation therapy at the Staten Island University Hospital in New York City. "George is very different from many people in that he didn't have fear of death," said Gil Lederman, one of his doctors there. "He felt that life and death were part of the same process." Harrison's passing leaves only Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as surviving members of the Fab Four--John Lennon was murdered in New York City...
...What happened in the European Parliament was a kind of cloning experiment gone wrong," sighs José MarÍa Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado, a Spanish MEP. "The vote underlines the confusion that reigns in the minds of politicians and the public." Until that confusion is cleared up, neither the promise nor the perils of cloning will be properly understood...
...Mets are, and rejoice as much when the scoreboard has the Yankees behind as we do when the Mets are winning. We’ve come to call ourselves The Loop, a group chiefly defined by the people who don’t show up. If Gil didn’t come out and join the guys in Flushing every so often, we’d all shrug and say things like, “I dunno, Gil’s outta the loop.” “Is he out of the loop, you think...
...Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud Gilberto. Then, in the late 1960s and '70s, the Tropicalia movement marched in, armed with rock guitars and rebel lyrics and led by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa...
...memory of his father's decline is still fresh for De Castro and still painful. "Sometimes you go into a record store and find all the works of Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso and never a CD by my father," he says. "People who write the history of Brazilian music act as if Simonal never existed. Nobody can calculate the price that my family paid for that...