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...result. That's what director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) was hoping for, as he embarked on his documentary-cum-music video effort, Calle 54. Trueba titled the film (54th Street) after the address of the Sony Studio where he gathered Latin music giants such as Gato Barbieri, Paquito d'Rivera and Tito Puente over 12 days in March 2000 to visually and aurally document these aging Lions of Latin music. The project proved timely, because two short months after production finished, Puente passed away, and the footage remains one of the last recorded performances the legendary percussionist and bandleader ever...
...Blacks, predicts that once blacks are unified behind the idea, whites can be persuaded to support reparations by an appeal to their sense of justice. "I don't think among rational people that you can argue that a graver crime has occurred than slavery," Robinson told TIME's Elaine Rivera. "Whites will come to recognize for moral and practical reasons that reparations benefit the whole of society...
...when this process was discontinued; we've now ended up in an untidy limbo of a new, unexpected government in the hands of a leader who was sworn in by prosecutors, Senators and the protesters who pointedly ignored the laws that protect every Filipino's right to justice. MAYA RIVERA Makati City, the Philippines...
...Yankees boast Andy Pettite, Roger Clemens, Orlando 'El Duque' Hernandez, and now Mike Mussina. And you think the Red Sox are the team to beat? Add Mariano Rivera, the undisputed best closer in the American League, and you've got yourself a pitching staff that might be invincible. The Yankees are again the favorite...
There were signs too that Clinton's damage-control muscles were finally flexing. Thursday night, Geraldo Rivera reported an exclusive interview with a "frustrated, angry, but still defiant Bill Clinton." And by Friday, an op-ed piece was being drafted for the New York Times under Clinton's byline. In it, he would not come up with the apology some party elders had been begging for. However, he would accept full responsibility for the Rich pardon and frustratedly, angrily, defiantly assert it was one with which he was comfortable...