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...Dickens wrote best-selling novels, but they weren't considered "commercial" or "popular" or "your-euphemism-here." They were just novels. No one looked down on Scott and Tennyson and Stowe for being wildly successful. No one got all embarrassed when they were caught reading the new Edgar Allan Poe over lunch...
...last of the New York City avant-rockers still soldiering on. He too has been mislabeled--icy and pretentious--although he's begging for it with his latest project. The Raven, as Reed tells it, is a two-CD "movie for the mind" inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. (Reed's girlfriend Laurie Anderson did a Moby Dick performance piece in 1999; maybe they're working their way through a 10th-grade syllabus?) Half the album is narration--from The Raven, Annabel Lee, etc.--performed by Willem Dafoe, Steve Buscemi and Amanda Plummer in their best Scooby-Doo villain voices...
...only one politician, former Education Secretary Raul Roco, has formally announced an intention to run for the presidency. But there are plenty of other possible aspirants, including Fernando Poe Jr.-like Estrada, he is an action-movie star. Last week the political grapevine buzzed with rumors that ex-President Fidel Ramos might join the fray, although his candidacy could be blocked by a clause in the Philippine constitution preventing any President from being re-elected. (Ramos boosters say the constitution only bars Presidents from serving two consecutive terms.) The People Power II rebellion achieved its goal of getting one President...
...DIED. STAN RICE, 60, American poet and painter; from brain cancer; in New Orleans. Rice, the husband of Interview with a Vampire novelist Anne Rice, won several awards for his seven collections of poetry, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American poets and the Joseph Henry Jackson Award...
...Harrison's defense attorneys hope cameras will enhance jurors' sense of accountability. "The mere presence of a camera will keep people on their best behavior," says defense attorney Windi Akins. "Jurors won't be bullied by other jurors who want to strong-arm them into changing their vote." Judge Poe sees cameras as an extension of the tradition of open courtrooms. "We got away from the Star Chamber in England when people were tried in secrecy," he says...