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Assistant Professor of Music Graeme Boone, however, took his interest in the group a little farther than the average Deadhead. Last October, Boone delivered a comprehensive address on The Dead and one of their songs, "Dark Star" at a conference given by the Society for Music Theory in Oakland, Calif...
...movie star wants to enjoy untainted American spaces, what's left? Try Montana. For members of the names-in-bold-print set, from Ted Turner to Tom Brokaw, from Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan to Mel Gibson and Kiefer Sutherland, from Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen to Oakland A's owner Walter Haas, the Big Sky State has become the hottest of hideaways. Says Russ Francis, a former San Francisco 49er football star who recently joined the rush to Big Sky Country: "This is the last best place in America...
Neuharth struck again last month when the Oakland Tribune (circ. 137,000), America's only black-owned metropolitan daily, announced it was about to go bankrupt. In a highly publicized rescue, the Freedom Forum committed $7.5 ! million in loans and guarantees to the Tribune while Gannett swallowed $29 million of the newspaper's debt. Freedom Forum acquired rights to one-fifth of the Tribune...
...Actually, the fans in Oakland are a lot more abusive towards me than they are in Toronto. I think a lot of fans really respect me in Toronto, it's always tougher to be booed at home," he said...
...until this season, however, hitting in Oakland had not really hurt Canseco. He had averaged one home run per 16.5 at-bats at home and one per 15.6 at-bats on the road, not much of a difference...