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...likes the baseball play-offs. Purists yearn for the days when just two teams would emerge from the grueling, 162-game slog of the regular season to battle one-on-one on crisp October afternoons. Modern fans too often watch their deserving hometown favorites stumble to an early-round upset. And nonfans run the risk of missing three weeks of Just Shoot...
...roots of De la Rocha's rage are in his hometown of Irvine, Calif. He went to a mostly white high school where, as a Chicano, he seethed at racist comments about "wetbacks" made by students and teachers alike. At age 17, he saw a show by the black punk group Bad Brains, and it was "a personal revolution." De la Rocha, Morello, drummer Brad Wilk and bassist Tim Commerford formed Rage...
...Owens is ticked off, and he wants John and Patsy Ramsey to know it. In a press conference on Wednesday, Owens announced there would be no special prosecutor to investigate the death of JonBenet Ramsey, the six-year-old beauty queen whose 1996 murder prompted an uproar in her hometown of Boulder. Owens also unleashed a stream of vitriol at JonBenet?s parents: "If I could speak to John and Patsy Ramsey, I would tell them to stop hiding behind their attorneys, come back to Colorado and work with the investigators in this case, no matter where that trail...
...been out as a Howard Stern fan for six years, ever since his program was syndicated to my hometown...
After a few weeks at a middling Washington internship and a quick shot of my small, charming, but proudly parochial hometown, I was really looking forward to the trip. I thought a few weeks amidst the ghosts of Schubert and intellectual giants like Nietzsche, Weber and the rest would do me good. I didn't suspect that when I left for Germany the Backstreet Boys would come with...