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Sitting comfortably in the upper tier of the FleetCenter last week, I waited, hot dog in hand, for the start of the Celtics game. Just another mid-winter contest in the interminably drawn-out NBA season, against a visiting Houston Rockets team that does not have a particular rivalry with the Celts or Bostonians in general...
...used to the idea. An exhibition of 420 Incan artifacts--354 of them from Machu Picchu--curated by Burger and Salazar, opened last month at Yale's Peabody Museum, where it will remain until May 4. Then it begins a two-year tour of Los Angeles; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Denver; Houston; and Chicago. The exhibit makes for riveting history--even if it's not Indiana Jones. --Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York
...right to be suspicious. Music executives prophesy long-term success for their artists all the time. Davis, however, has a track record. During his 35 years as a label president, he has signed and developed Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana, Patti Smith, Laura Nyro, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen and Whitney Houston. "I'm not really sure what it is with him," says Alicia Keys, whom Davis introduced to the world at his 2001 pre-Grammy party. "He just knows talent when he hears it, and he never hesitates about his own instincts...
CONVICTED. CLARA HARRIS, 45, Texas dentist; of murder, by repeatedly running over her adulterous husband David with her Mercedes-Benz, as her stepdaughter sat beside her in the car; in Houston. Harris, who contended the death was accidental and that she was simply trying to ram the vehicle of her husband's lover, was sentenced to 20 years in prison...
...says, pointing to a gray parka hanging on a doorknob. “Exeter bought it for me. It’s the only winter coat I have, and I still wear it. They knew I was in danger of dropping out and going to back to Houston, so they always made me feel like I was surrounded by a million people who cared...