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...George W. Bush said last week. "The people want services. They want to be able to raise their children in an environment in which they can get a decent education and they can find health care." The President was talking about Palestinians, not Americans, and he was on a roll. "If there is corruption, I'm not surprised that people say, Let's get rid of corruption," he added. "If government hadn't been responsive, I'm not the least bit surprised that people said, I want government to be responsive...
...national phenomenon," he said over video of seas of teen and twentysomething applicants thronging stadiums and audition halls like pilgrims on the hajj. "It's become a modern rite of passage, like going to the prom. You get your first car, you graduate from high school, and when we roll into your town, you audition for American Idol...
Maturing markets are turning Western magazine publishers in a new media direction--east, to China and India. Rock chronicler Rolling Stone will launch its Chinese edition in February. "Consumer-lifestyle publishing in China is a new phenomenon," says Rolling Stone publisher Steve DeLuca. There's little competition too: "The Chinese government wasn't up to the rock-'n'-roll scene...
...volatile R&B star whose gravelly, raunchy delivery on such 1960s hits as Mustang Sally and In the Midnight Hour inspired the 1991 film The Commitments and helped earn him the moniker Wicked Pickett; of a heart attack; in Reston, Va. Despite drug and legal battles, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer remained inventive and determined, answering the disco craze with explosive live performances, which he continued until shortly before his death, and meriting a 2000 Grammy nomination for It's Harder Now, his first album in a decade...
...launch of the Ford Five Hundred, a middle-market sedan with all the élan of Wonder Bread. Ford's revival of the legendary Thunderbird, in 2001, flopped so badly that production was suspended last year. Geriatric wonders like the Grand Marquis and Town Car still roll out of Mercury and Lincoln plants, headed mainly for corporate fleets. Only Mazda, which Ford controls, appears to be reliably cranking out critically lauded models, from the compact Mazda 3 to the MX-5 roadster. In view of the warm reception for the CX-7, a crossover vehicle unveiled at the Detroit auto...