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...John Mackiewicz, ALBANY...
After the 1980s, charity tunes hit mostly false notes (Anyone remember 2008's "Just Stand Up"?) except for Elton John's 1997 reworking of "Candle in the Wind," which benefited Princess Diana's foundation following her death. The song's outsize success--it is the best-selling single ever--spawned a wave of imitators too lazy to even think up new lyrics. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was rerecorded and released in 2004 to benefit Darfur. And the new "We Are the World," featuring an Auto-Tuned Lil Wayne in place of Bob Dylan, may be raising money atop...
...Kudrow really wanted me to call my cousin, at which point I admitted that I think people like her and Carol are massive dorks. (See pictures of John McCain's family tree...
...questions covered everything from common knowledge to more obscure tidbits, such as the name of John Harvard's boat (Queen's Head) and the color of a polar bear's tongue (black...
...ultimate confirmation of my suspicions came from John Powers, the Boston Globe's esteemed Olympics writer who has covered 17 Games, starting with Montreal in 1976. Since then, he has missed only one Olympics, Moscow in 1980, which the U.S. boycotted. I asked him if Vancouver is setting Olympic records for revelry. "It is, by far," he said. "There's just a couple of thousand people every night with nothing to do, no tickets, concentrated downtown. It's their chance to live the dream." (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...