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...Music Therapy? It was remarkable that there was so much hoopla over whether this one visit by the New York Philharmonic could somehow have a lasting effect on relations between North Korea and the civilized world [March 10]. This flies in the face of the Bard's admonition to remember that what's past is prologue. Not quite four decades ago, the U.S. table-tennis team ping-ponged to Beijing, opening the door for Nixon to play the "China card" against the Soviets, but that only led to nearly two decades of détente. The only effective...
DOLLY PARTON, country-music star, on why she self-financed her new album, Backwoods Barbie...
Called the Fifth Beatle by members of the band, Neil Aspinall used to shuttle the foursome to nighttime gigs in Liverpool while holding down an accounting job by day. Devoted friend, roadie and unofficial manager, he came to run the Beatles' music empire, Apple Corps, deftly negotiating with all four members--and the wives of the deceased--even when communication was most strained, and producing the popular Beatles Anthology retrospective albums, among others. Unwavering in his loyalty, Aspinall, unlike many other Beatles insiders, never told his--or their--story...
Martin Luther King Jr. was 26 years old when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus and 39 when he was murdered. Prodigies in music and math are familiar, but moral genius we typically associate with age. The gap between the brevity of King's life and its consequence is easy to state but hard to fathom, like the speed of light...
...Billy Kyles muses as he recalls the colleagues surrounding King that fatal evening in Memphis, Tenn. They were vivid, vigorous, virile young men. In his last hour alive, King and his friends had a pillow fight in his motel room. History records that his last thoughts encompassed gospel music, neckties, soul food and the high price of righteousness. "I'd rather be dead than afraid," this threat-haunted man explained to his friends that...