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...hits of the '60s, Hayes and Porter helped define that studio's sound, which dispensed with the pop craftsmanship of Stax's main rival Motown Records and, taking inspiration from James Brown's mid-'60s ravers, revved up the motor of testosterone. For Sam & Dave they wrote the hits Hold On, I'm Coming and Soul Man. Both tunes are declarations of sexual prowess ready to explode. Get with the program, they said, or get out of the way. When first released, the songs were No. 1 R&B winners (Soul Man hit No. 2 on the pop charts...
...social conservatives come out to support Amendment 48, they might hold their noses and vote for McCain. "The personhood amendment could be something that gets [social conservatives] out to vote," says Curtis Hubbard, political editor of the Denver Post. It wouldn't be the first time a Republican got help from further down the ballot. In 2004, Bush benefited from several statewide initiatives banning gay marriage...
...White House, on both sides of the legislative aisle and abroad. And he is both leading and riding the newest wave of change in the Evangelical community: an expansion beyond social conservatism to causes such as battling poverty, opposing torture and combating global warming. The movement has loosened the hold of religious-right leaders on ordinary Evangelicals and created an opportunity for Warren, who has lent his prominent voice to many of the new concerns...
...Obama is also scheduled to hold a fund raiser at the posh Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki that could rake in more than $500,000, reaping the rewards of being the first presidential nominee to travel to Hawaii since Richard Nixon in 1960. There's no word on where he might be staying during his visit, but he may want to avoid that particular hotel, which suffered a plague of bedbugs in April, according to the Pacific Business News...
...injury means Memmel will only be able to compete on uneven bars, and although that event is one of her strongest, Memmel could barely hold back tears as she talked about her scaled-back program. "It was very difficult," she said. "It's the Olympics, so it's the hardest thing to say I can only do bars. But bars is better than nothing. Bars is better than going home...