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...ANGELES: Sheryl Crow won't be able to "have some fun" at a Wal-Mart store anytime soon. The nation's largest retailer decided not to sell Crow's new album because one song implies Wal-Mart sells guns to children. "Selling a record implying behavior that is against all we stand for is something we just could not profit from," said Wal-Mart spokesman Dale Ingram. The lyrics in question, from a song called "Love is a Good Thing," read: "Watch out sister, watch out brother; Watch our children as they kill each other with a gun they bought...
This season offers an unusually full sophomore class, including singer Sheryl Crow, a fresh face three years ago. Her second album, bluntly titled Sheryl Crow and due out Sept. 24, is a sometimes amusing, mostly blah disc that may move units but doesn't move the soul. In better form is Counting Crows, whose first CD was a multiplatinum hit and a consistent delight; the band's Recovering the Satellites (Oct. 15) is a wise, worthy successor. Also, teen singer Aaliyah's second CD, One in a Million (just out), is soulfully soothing, and neo-soul performer Tricky...
Times may be changing. Sheryl Swoopes, a star at Texas Tech, and now a guard/forward on the U.S. Olympic team, has a Nike sneaker named after her: Air Swoopes. She's the first woman with such a contract. "I'm still trying to find words to describe how I feel about that," she says. "It's an incredible feeling when you walk into a store and see your shoe. And you hear a little girl asking not for a pair of Air Jordans but a pair of Air Swoopes...
...most powerful man in the world? Is it because they're devoted wives or because the White House has a glass ceiling? If these women have star-quality expertise, then, yes, we should hold the proposed Hillary-Liddy debate. And next time, elect one of them President. SHERYL HALPERN Montreal...
Nicholas D. Kristof '81, the former South East Asia Bureau Chief for The New York Times and foreign correspondent Sheryl WuDunn spoke in the Harvard Crimson Sanctum last night about the difficulties of reporting in China...