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DIED. RONNIE LANE, 51, fun-loving British rock guitarist; after a two-decades-long struggle with multiple sclerosis; in Trinidad, Colo. The bassist co-founded Small Faces, which became the band that launched Rod Stewart. In 1977, as Lane began to feel the effects of the disease, he collaborated with Pete Townshend on the rock-'n'-roll classic Rough...
During the '60s and '70s, Jones earned legend status for his willingness to stay up four or five nights in a row with fellow producer Rod Pemberton to get albums out before deadline...
...sensitive about the media's fixation on his former career as a house cleaner, which he describes as "my job and their hook." In a Rod Roddy voice he relates one uncomfortable appearance on a talk show whose host cackled, "Our guest is an author and...get this...he cleans houses...
Amid the breakdown of normal commercial life, shortages of food, fuel and other vital commodities began to grow acute. What could restore order was beyond anyone's guess, although Berisha's resignation seems to be the indispensable start. The Democratic Party leader has been a lightning rod for public rage since the January collapse of more than a dozen get-rich-quick investment schemes that lost the life savings of somewhere between 50% and 90% of the population. Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles...
...based, reflecting the audience's demographic democracy. Star Wars devised a novel equation: here was a film every teenage boy wanted to see a dozen times. Lucas spoke, from his bionic heart, to the American boy's love for shiny gadgets, spiffy uniforms, authoritative-sounding technotalk and a hot rod that shoots really cool laser blasts. The film certified a new wisdom: megamovies were now the province of the young male...