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...that of Laura Arroyo, 9, a local girl who was abducted and murdered last month. Gawkers began gathering in twos and threes, then in ever larger throngs. One evening last week, an estimated 25,000 assembled amid ice-cream and food vendors, causing a two-mile-long traffic jam. One hustling entrepreneur took over a vacant lot and charged $3 a car for parking...
...network's best-performing programs. In April it scored a coup by snagging R.E.M. for one of only two concerts the band performed in the U.S. to promote its No. 1 album, Out of Time. Last month Unplugged broke musical ground by offering an acoustic jam headlined by rappers L.L. Cool J and De La Soul that exposed the R.-and-B. roots of the rap sound. "It sounded like something that would never work," says McGrath...
...publicist, "louder than a rock concert." A good car alarm is a sharp blade of sound: it pierces sleep, it goes into the skull like an oyster knife. In a neighborhood of apartment buildings, one such beast rouses sleepers by the hundreds, even thousands. They wake, roll over, moan, jam pillows on their ears and try to suppress the adrenaline...
...copies. Spurred by visions of a new way to capitalize on rap's mainstream acceptance, record labels have been hurrying to develop other promising female rappers. Now a wave of female performers is giving male rappers a run for their platinum. Says Russell Simmons, the rap impresario whose Def Jam label recently signed a sharp young rapper named Nikki D: "There are more women buying rap records who would like to relate to women as artists, and there are more guys who want to hear a woman's point of view...
...keep going like we are, Cambridge will be just one big parking lot and traffic jam," said Don Allen, one of the bikers flanking Kennedy and president of the Charles River Wheelmen, a local biking club...