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...NOTES: Ripken is one of only seven players to amass more than 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. The six others are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak...
Country--like pop music in general--has been regressing to childhood in recent years. Teen acts like Billy Gilman and Jessica Andrews are winning airplay on radio and face time on TV, but much of the music that's being made would make Hank Williams cry even harder into his beer. Recent country-music sales have been flat. In the first quarter of 2001, according to SoundScan, country sold 14, 871 ,000 CDs, albums and tapes, a 106,000 drop from the same quarter last year. And country seems slowly to be losing listeners to rap and rock, with...
...DIED. HANK KETCHAM, 81, creator of the impish cartoon character Dennis the Menace and his crotchety neighbor Mr. Wilson; in Pebble Beach, Calif. Ketcham conceived the strip in October 1950 after his own mischievous four-year-old, named Dennis, caused his exasperated mother to exclaim to Ketcham, "Your son is a menace!" (Father and son were later estranged.) In 1951 Ketcham began drawing the strip, which ran for 50 years in 1,000 newspapers and 48 countries...
...story on Napster that mentioned Senate Judiciary Committee hearings [BUSINESS, April 16], we incorrectly said that musicians Alanis Morissette and Don Henley joined Napster CEO Hank Barry in trying "to sell the Senate on compulsory licenses--giving websites the same status as radio stations, which pay royalty fees for playing music." Rather, Morissette did not directly address the issue of licensing, and Henley stated that compulsory licenses should be considered, but only as a last resort...
...must for romantic comedy lovers: Julia Roberts stars as Kiki, the sister of popular film star Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who finds herself attracted to her sister's estranges actor husband, played by John Cusack. Co-stars Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria, and Seth Green...