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...Indeed, there may be a deeper significance to Obama’s selection of Warren. The President-elect’s recent selection of openly gay Episcopal bishop V. Gene Robinson to give an inaugural prayer suggests that his invitation to Warren is one of mere courtesy, not an endorsement of the evangelical leader’s political views. In fact, there may be a distinct policy perogative at stake—winning younger evangelicals over to a more progressive position on gay rights. And there is reason for such hope as, despite Biblical injunctions, younger evangelicals are becoming more...
...former boxer and automobile worker, Berry Gordy was a nascent songwriter when, at the urging of Smokey Robinson, a songwriter ten years younger than Gordy, he decided to establish Motown Records. The two had become friends years earlier and Robinson, who was the lead singer of a band called The Miracles, produced, wrote, and sang several of Motown's most memorable hits - including the labels' first smash song, "Shop Around" in 1960. A year later, "Please Mr. Postman," by The Marvelettes, was the label's first No. 1 song. It would not be the last...
Over the next decade, the sheer number of chart-topping artists, musicians, and groups produced by Motown defied comprehension: Martha and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. All became part of what would come to be known as the Motown Sound. It is rumored that Gordy modeled his hit factory after the Detroit car assembly line that he knew so well: Make a good product, then make something similar, and make it quick. Over here were...
...temporary home until the Harlem building was finished. The space features a 9,600-sq.-ft. replica baseball field, replete with dugouts, outfield seats and a 25-ft. scoreboard modeled after the one at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. On this set - called Studio 42, after Jackie Robinson's uniform number - analysts will provide on-air instruction about the subtleties of the game. "We have a lot of toys in here," says Tony Petitti, the former No. 2 at CBS Sports who was tapped in April to run the network. (See pictures from the last night at Yankee Stadium...
...level of happiness tends to be relatively stable in both good times and bad. Even when people are hit by big negative surprises, say a diagnosis of cancer, most generally optimistic people remain optimistic. "There is a piece of happiness that comes and goes with daily life," says David Robinson, a finance professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. "But there is a much larger piece of happiness that is stable...