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...Delson, who co-founded the group with junior high school buddy Shinoda, "the vision was, 'Let's create a hybrid of hip-hop and heavier music and electronic music and try to make it into one sound.' It was pretty crude when we started." So crude that every major label took a pass. Things only got worse when Limp Bizkit, Korn and other fusion groups hit the charts with a similar musical formula. "We thought we had a new idea and, to our dismay, all these groups started breaking," recalls Delson. "We were almost, like, 'We've been beaten...
...time in two days that Powell's preference for adherence to the Convention's articles was criticized by Bush advisers, who are adamant that the treaty does not apply to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners. The White House is worried that granting the detainees anything but a terrorist label will make it harder to interrogate them about Osama bin Laden's network. Nevertheless, at a National Security Council meeting today, they were expected to review the detainees' status...
...Rive Gauche and cosmetics arms of Yves Saint Laurent were sold to Gucci in 1999. The designer has not embraced the collections of the label's new head man American Tom Ford, but the public has, and sales more than doubled the first year. Saint Laurent hung on to control of his first love, the couture house, which ran at a loss of $11 million a year. It will not continue beyond him. Couture has been pronounced dead many times before, but his departure may be the coup de grace. With an emphasis on the grace...
...continued terrorist attacks on Israelis [WORLD, Dec. 24]: When will the world realize that Yasser Arafat lacks the will, the courage and the power to effect a meaningful peace with Israel? To label Israelis terrorists because they retaliate in kind for the murderous acts of militant Palestinians is the height of irrational thinking. When Arafat walked away from the 2000 Camp David peace process, it was positive proof that he was a tool of the radicals who control him. ALBERT E. DENNY Baltimore...
Half a century ago, that message didn't get through. Chess and Thomas were dismissed as "determinists"--a damning label during an era in which babies were seen as blank slates upon which parents could scribble any personality at all. But practitioners see new wisdom in the old findings...