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When Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and other Senate Republicans put Judge Enrique Moreno's nomination hearing on hold indefinitely and refused to give him an up-or-down vote, Bush failed to speak out. Moreno is from Bush's home state and was given the highest rating by the American Bar Association, yet Bush has not made one phone call to any Senate Republican asking that Moreno get a fair hearing and an up-or-down vote...
...Line: Here's how bad the Chargers are: Ryan Leaf, until Thursday their starting QB and now just a guy waiting for Moses Moreno to get hurt, has a quarterback rating that is actually lower than if he had never, ever completed a pass. That's because he sometimes does complete passes, but usually to people from teams other than his own. This is a bad thing to do in the National Football League. Which shows that while it's true that you can't win if you don't play, sometimes it's still better not to suit...
...band's players hail from different ethnic backgrounds. Moreno and Delgado are Latino, Carpenter and Cunningham are white, and Chi Cheng is Chinese American. The racial mix is unusual in the mostly bleached-white world of hard rock but natural for a group from Sacramento. "It's really weird. We'll do interviews overseas, and they'll ask, 'What's it like being in a multiethnic band? Does that affect your music?'" says Cheng. "And we're like, 'Wow, man, come to our neighborhood. It's like that everywhere...
...such as Radiohead; at other times the group's sound has the jagged intensity of punk rockers such as Nirvana. Deejay Delgado's hip-hoppy contributions are often more atmospheric than overt. "If there's anything hip-hop about our band, it's that it's groove-oriented," says Moreno. "Every song we have you can nod your head to like you would to a hip-hop song. But to me, hip-hop is more of a culture. We grew up in a hip-hop environment. But as far as me using words like 'yo' in my lyrics...
...Moreno has a different take. "We already have freedom," he says. "We're able to make music and go around the world and play it. Anything else is a bonus." After the interview, Deftones takes the stage and more than lives up to the advance hype, pounding out some of its new songs, including the aching Change (in the House of Flies) with focused ferocity. It's the listeners who are getting the bonus...