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...moment of truth: Gordon Goodwin is a seventh-grader in Wichita, Kans. He listens to his first Count Basie record, The Queen Bee. Even though he has never heard Big Band jazz before, it hits him like something he has always known. He thinks, "That's it. That's going to be my life." And for the next three decades or so, it is--sort of. After studying music in college, he becomes a busy pianist, saxophonist and arranger at Disney theme parks and Hollywood studios, with a five-year interlude as musical director for Johnny Mathis. He wins three...
Then comes a second moment of truth. The music he is turning out so successfully often strays too far from The Queen Bee. "I thought I'd better produce something that I could hold in my hand and say, 'Look! This is what I'm about...
...popular Sports Club Seoul Leisure, tel: (82-2) 404 7000, uses an extraordinary range of facilities as its lure: its 10 floors feature themed saunas,[an error occurred while processing this directive] oxygen rooms, a golf practice range, a movie theater and a karaoke room. In Shenzhen, the gaudy Queen Spa (86-755) 8225 3888 sprawls over 40,000 sq m and includes overnight sleeping capsules, more than 500 massage rooms, and a leisure area with Internet access, billiards and table tennis (there's also a restaurant serving Cantonese and European fare...
...DIED. Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, charismatic Queen of New Zealand's indigenous Maori, a royal position established in 1858 in response to Britain's colonization of the South Pacific archipelago; in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand. Though her post was ceremonial, Te Ata, the sixth Maori ruler, worked to raise the profile of Maori abroad, attending the coronations of foreign sovereigns and meeting with world leaders like President Clinton, Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela...
Confessions are supposed to clinch a case. And then there are confessions like the one that John Mark Karr made last week in connection with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. Ten years ago, the 6-year-old beauty queen's terrible death and weirdly captivating life--the hair, the costumes, the come-hither poses--became the stuff of national obsession at the very moment the O.J. Simpson story was going stale. It even promised, like the Simpson case, to be a family affair, because from the first, suspicion fell on John and Patsy Ramsey, JonBenet's parents. But the killer...