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...that remained was for Alsop to address the troops. She kept it short--six minutes, by her reckoning--and sweet: "I said, 'Listen, I don't know how this got to this place. But I need to know that we're a team. It'll be hard for me, and I can put this behind us if you can.'" Alsop offered to leave the room and let the musicians talk it over among themselves. "I didn't even get backstage. They said, 'Come back!' It was nice. If anything this week could have been nice, that was it." --With reporting...
There are more than 182 million cell-phone subscribers in the U.S., paying an average of just over $50 a month, according to CTIA, the wireless-industry association ? Plantronics' new Pulsar Bluetooth stereo headphones ($200) are phone savvy; they let you listen to music wirelessly from a PC or MP3 player, but when a phone call comes in, the music goes silent. --By Wilson Rothman
...listen to people who have known him longest, what sets Roberts apart is not so much his individual virtues but how they marry: a great talker who listens well, a natural talent who works unnaturally hard, a regular guy who moonlights as a legal star. In his prime-time introduction of his nominee to take the place of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, President George W. Bush drove right past the fact that Roberts is a reliably conservative fellow who would not "legislate from the bench" and lingered instead on the career and character that would make...
...book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White: "I think most people just want somebody to listen to them." --By Elspeth Reeve
...most bootlegged in history) called R. Kelly Exposed. Once you've seen the visuals--their authenticity is questioned by Kelly's lawyer, though the action takes place in a wood-paneled room that strongly resembles one in Kelly's house--it's difficult to listen to a Kelly song without feeling as if you ought to register at the local precinct...