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...TAKE A LAP...
...tempting to call this resurgence a victory lap for free-spirited artists over the big, bad corporations, but that would be giving Prince too much--and too little--credit. He may have briefly adopted the language of artistic brotherhood in his fight with Warner, but Prince didn't pick up the face pencil to fight for the Hoobastanks and Josh Grobans of the world. The principle at stake was never creative Utopianism: it was narcissism. Prince believed that he was a genius and that his tiniest musical doodle merited commercial attention. (He even declined to do phone interviews, saying...
Senior Chris Chiou, though he did not play because of his impending MCAT examination, was in attendance to root on his younger teammates, a Kaplan prep book resting in his lap all the while...
NASCAR DAD? As he ended his bid for the Democratic nomination, John Edwards got some speechwriting help from his daughter Emma Claire, 5. He wrote the concession speech at his Raleigh, N.C., home--the last lap for a candidate whose Secret Service code name was "Speedway...
...inauspiciously confirmed than in the audience of a peculiar, little-known songwriter who records and travels under the moniker of “The Mountain Goats.” John Darnielle, the brains behind the Goats, brought an hour-long segment of oral poetry to an audience eager to lap up his stories and songs at T.T. the Bear’s Place last Friday night...