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...take Clarkson's side: Artists should be able to express themselves, and anyone who's ever heard the slick, wan albums that the Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers Band made while under Davis' wing has a right to be wary of his involvement. Nevermind the way Whitney Houston's gospel-rooted lungs were constantly undermined by the formulaic material Davis and his cohorts saddled her with...
...Catholicism shows the discrimination he faced and the boldness with which he triumphed over it. Kennedy ultimately made a practical argument against prejudice. "While this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed," he said in a speech to the conservative Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, "in other years it has been--and may someday be again--a Jew or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist ... Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow...
...mobster's delta property. Ferrie later told the FBI that he was helping Marcello map strategy for a perjury and conspiracy trial then under way. (Marcello was acquitted on the day of the assassination.) On the night of the assassination Ferrie drove 350 miles through a rainstorm to Houston, arriving at about 4 a.m. He later insisted that this was a hunting trip, but he spent hours making calls from public phones at a skating rink...
...look at tumors for changes at the DNA, RNA and protein levels," says Dr. Gordon Mills, chair of systems biology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "It certainly gives us a way of looking at what is happening inside a tumor, and that's very exciting...
Want to do good while ensconcing yourself in luxury? Book a night in a designated Giving Room at selected Preferred Hotel Group properties between now and Sept. 30, and 10% of that room's revenue will be donated to a nominated charity. Beginning last year as an initiative at Houston's Hotel Derek, the Giving Room idea has now spread to hotels like the Landmark Bangkok (in aid of the Thai Red Cross), the Hotel Majestic in Barcelona (for Oxfam), and Ireland's Dromoland Castle (in support of the Barnardo's children's charity). For the full list...