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...communism-out of vogue but still capable of getting large masses of people excited. HIStory's first CD contains digitally remastered versions of some of Jackson's greatest hits, including such classics as Rock with You and Beat It. The second CD has 15 new songs, featuring plenty of guest performers (basketball star Shaquille O'Neal has a rap cameo on the song 2Bad, and sister Janet duets with Michael on Scream) and guest producers (including R. Kelly, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis). The result is that HIStory is full of musical ideas but feels too bureaucratic and lacks...
DIED. JEROME ZIPKIN, 80, social moth; in Manhattan. Loyal, insulting -- often to the same people -- Jerry Zipkin served for half a century as party guest, escort and confidant of socially prominent, financially comfortable women (Betsy Bloomingdale, Pat Buckley). In the '30s his friend Somerset Maugham modeled the snobbish Elliot Templeton of The Razor's Edge on the fashion-obsessed real estate heir. But Zipkin's greatest coup was his relationship with Nancy Reagan. He was with the First Family on the night they captured that title; in the following years, Mrs. Reagan dished and danced with Zipkin so regularly that...
...creature of painful contradictions. Heralded as the premier technical photographer of his generation, he never printed his own pictures. Cited as a pivotal figure in elevating photography's status as an art, he seemed less concerned with placing his images in museums than in overseeing the opening-night guest lists. Yet it was oddly appropriate that Mapplethorpe became a posthumous symbol of artistic freedom in 1990, when Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center was prosecuted on obscenity charges for showing his photographs. While Mapplethorpe probably could not recite the First Amendment, his work was an extreme form of self-expression meant...
Aside from a one-year stint as a guest lecture at Harvard, he has been at the University of Illinois ever since...
Controversies over guest speakers on American campuses are nothing new, but rarely does one become an international incident. From the moment last year that Cornell University asked a distinguished graduate to address an alumni gathering, policymakers for the U.S. and China knew they had a first-class hot potato on their hands. The invitee was Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, whose government is unrecognized by most of the world thanks to China's strenuous efforts to keep it isolated. Could Lee visit a onetime ally that cut off relations 16 years ago? The issue seemed strictly academic as long...