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Still, moving from her small public high school to Radcliffe presented “total culture shock in every way,” Maddox says, when she arrived on campus in September of 1949. “I came from a place where I was one of two people who loved reading books,” she says...
...released Walking on Thin Ice in February 1981 with the dedication "For John," but it failed to crack the Top 40. "I was so in shock at John's passing," says Ono, "that I forgot about the song and pretty much everything else. I certainly wasn't going to any clubs." Thus she had no idea that influential Paradise Garage DJ Larry Levan remixed Walking on Thin Ice into a dance-club anthem in the summer of '81. Levan died in 1992, and since then his many disciples in the DJ world have occasionally paid dual tribute to Levan...
...deal with them appropriately and give them their just desserts.” But then, he says that because Harvard is “already crawling with Blair Hornstines,” it’s “hypocritical” to react to her lawsuit with shock and abhorrence...
...Later on Tuesday, the comedy night gets whiter still with "Rock Me Baby," with Dan Cortese as a shock jock forced into maturity by fatherhood. And at 9:30, it gets as white as humanly possible with "The Mullets," the name of which alone inspired the biggest laughs of anything so far this upfront. From two ex-"Simpsons" producers, it's about two brothers with a roofing business, huge poofy mullet haircuts and half a brain between them. Unfortunately, the clips themselves didn't incite the laughs the title did, but that won't keep me from checking...
...coalition officials working on the ground in Iraq who have quietly but insistently warned of a mounting danger that the peace could be lost. The complex and treacherous game of installing a new Iraqi government was never going to be resolved quickly or easily, but there is widespread shock and anger in Baghdad that the world's greatest industrial and military power, which swept aside Saddam's regime in a matter of three weeks, has failed, a month later, to restore Baghdad's electricity supply or to secure the streets from marauding thugs...