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...Milwaukee Sentinel announced a merger, destroying about 500 jobs--and creating yet another one-newspaper town. In March the Fort Worth Star-Telegram abandoned its all-day edition. In April the Houston Post walked off the field, leaving its rival, the Chronicle, with the run of the city. Knight-Ridder then announced plans to cut 250 jobs at its two Philadelphia newspapers, the Daily News and the Inquirer. In the fall, managers at the Hartford Courant, which had never laid off a worker since its founding in 1764, asked 188 staff members to take voluntary buyouts, citing financial pressure from...
...Knight--his nickname, pronounced Shoog, is derived from "Sugar Bear"--is the son of a Compton, California, truck driver. He began building his music empire in 1989, and from the start he had an eye for raw talent. Knight is often compared to Motown founder Berry Gordy in the way in which he recruited a talented group of performers and carefully shaped their images and careers...
Kevin Powell, a Brooklyn-based music writer who is working on a book of essays that will deal, in part, with hip-hop and American culture, says Shakur, who grew up fatherless, was drawn to the charismatic Knight as a father figure. Knight, for his part, says the relationship was a bit more equal: "He was the little brother, and I was the big brother." The tie was cemented when Knight posted a $1.4 million bond last year, releasing Shakur from prison while he appealed his conviction on a sexual-assault charge...
Before Shakur signed with Knight, his records were relatively thoughtful; his first release for Death Row, All Eyez on Me, was filled with the label's typical violent posturing. But Kidada Jones, Shakur's fiance (and daughter of show-biz mogul Quincy Jones), says that before his death Shakur was changing his ways--going out less, staying in more, watching movies like Les Miserables on laser disc. "Instead of going to strip clubs, he'd be cooking," says Jones. Shakur planned to move away from music and into acting, Jones adds. She says his last recording, Makiaveli, completed before...
BATMAN Despite new megaflick, Gotham's Dark Knight is overshadowed by the latest Krypton craze...