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...With a deal announced Monday between three of the music business's Big Five (Bertelsmann AG, EMI Group and AOL Time Warner, parent company of this writer) and tech outfit RealNetworks to create a pay-for-play service called MusicNet, the industry headed into a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online entertainment Tuesday feeling ready to face the future...
...also a priceless showcase for five cute boys. And Popstars (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) went Making the Band one better by not only creating girl group Eden's Crush but also giving it a guaranteed contract on a label owned by the WB's (and TIME's) parent AOL Time Warner. (O-Town was turned down by several labels before signing with J Records, veteran music exec Clive Davis' new endeavor.) Popstars' treatment of the young synergettes makes Making the Band look like a Bill Moyers special; it cheerfully depicts its women as a hungry, hardworking pop juggernaut...
Garrison Keillor's account of his father's final illness [ESSAY, March 12] just confirms what I have told so many friends concerning the death of my own mother. We who stay behind miss the bad times with the deceased parent just as much as the good times. What wouldn't we give to fight with this person once again? I, for one, would welcome another good and serious argument with my mother because even if we had our disagreements, they were an occasion for us to exchange feelings. The downside is that you come to this realization only after...
...Percentage of today's schoolchildren with a foreign-born parent...
...even in the wake of Columbine and Santee, the figures are chilling, if only because they reinforce every parent's worst fears about life at today's high schools. Those fears are, of course, for the most part fabricated out of the media's breathless, round-the-clock coverage of school shooting sprees. In fact, government records show that gun violence at schools is actually down 65 percent from the 1970s - but these days, the violence gets better coverage. It's spreading out of the inner city and into the "I never thought it would happen here" confines of Middle...