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...consider the recent developments in the career of MARIAH CAREY. Dropped from the Virgin record label four months ago because of poor sales, the singer was sent away with a $28 million parting gift. Now her failure is paying off again. She has just signed with Island Def Jam Records, a division of Universal Music Group, for a three-album deal worth more than $20 million. The pact will allow Carey to have her own label and explore opportunities in film and television...
...Sinead O'Connor. Both songs start almost a cappella, and Moby surrounds each voice with keyboards that rise like warm bathwater. The music gains tension yet never overwhelms the sad beauty of the voices. On 18's playful radio hits--We Are All Made of Stars and Jam for the Ladies--it's the beats that dominate, turning the lightweight vocals and raps into accessories...
...hatter might feel at home in the Wonderland of Iraq. The day is already growing hot as lines of ramshackle buses and black-windowed Mercedes jam the normally empty highway to Tikrit, the rural hometown of Saddam Hussein. It's April 28, Saddam's 65th birthday. Crowds of military men with fat moustaches, sheiks in flowing robes and farmers in shabby pants spill onto the expansive parade ground Saddam has built for special occasions like this. High-ranking guests fill up chairs in a large pseudohistorical reviewing stand where Mussolini would have felt at home...
After walking Boran and leftfielder Eric Ftizgerald to put men on first and second with no outs, Nyweide got out of the jam. He struck out Balkan swinging on a full-count offering, and sophomore catcher Mickey Kropf completed the double play by throwing out Boran , who was attempting to steal third...
...over the two decades it took to write his book to track down any of the Army personnel who served with Young, many of whom could be presumed to have been still alive when Daniels began his research - he began a long-time association with Norman Granz's floating jam session, called Jazz at the Philharmonic. A few weeks after his dishonorable discharge, Young appeared at the January, 1946 concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium at Los Angeles. The air was electric that night, because this was to be a meeting of the titans: Lester Young, the great tenor genius...