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...Germans are a more ragtag outfit. Their command post is a forest hut, and their personnel are either overage or underage -- the last scrapings of a nearly defeated nation's manpower pool. It is they who begin a suit for a separate peace. When they get the drop on some of the G.I.s, they don't fire. To test their intentions, one of the Americans builds a funny snowman-Hitler; the Germans respond by attacking their position -- with snowballs. Next thing you know both sides are singing Christmas carols together, exchanging presents and trying to work...
...Chuck and godson Sam, says that is exactly what happened. Chuck Giancana played the role of underworld Candide, charting his brother's rise as the most powerful Mob boss west of the Mississippi and taking note of his snuff work for the CIA. "It's beautiful," says Sam. "The Outfit even has the same enemies as the government...
This seven-piece outfit from Manchester succesfully integrates its vocals, guitars, keyboards and drums to produce a harmonious melody with a driving beat. In songs like "Born of Frustration" and "Live a Love of Life," Andy Diagram's trumpet adds a funky brass twist...
Country is also benefiting from the determined eclecticism of the twentysomething generation. At a Nashville concert by country hunk Alan Jackson, Brandi Byrd, 19, arrived with her hair teased into a punk sculpture, wearing a replica of an artfully threadbare Aerosmith outfit. At home she puts her Jackson and Brooks tapes alongside the work of groups like Whitesnake, Poison and Motley Crue. Says Julie Hall, a 23-year-old clerk at TNN: "I'm just as likely to buy the Black Crowes as I am to buy a Travis Tritt tape. I like good music. I don't care what...
...have our indomitable optimists. An outfit called the Millennium Society has lined up the QE2 to transport 3,000 people, all presumably upbeat, to a huge celebration at the Great Pyramid of Cheops. The authors of Megatrends 2000 look to "a period of stunning technological innovation, unprecedented economic opportunity, surprising political reform and great cultural rebirth...