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...Mandarin (the lingua franca of the recording industry in Taiwan, China and smaller markets in Singapore and Malaysia), she recorded a song that became a hit in Taiwan's karaoke bars. Within six months she had churned out two albums. "It was so hard on me. I got sick, didn't sleep and worked too much," she recalls. The following year, her label released seven more CoCo Lee CDs, largely compilations and retreads. And why not? She was hot. One was an album of covers in English, which she speaks fluently, though with an infusion of black urban slang...
...meeting with one of his foes - Nickles, the Senate's No. 2 Republican. "Tell the senator his friends are here," McCain told Nickles' secretary when he arrived. Their discussion moved through some disagreements but found common ground. Nickles surprised McCain by bringing up soft money - and saying senators were sick of raising it. Bush was willing to ban all but individual soft-money contributions, Nickles said, so why not go the rest of the way? There was a catch: He could support a soft-money ban only if McCain increased the amount of hard money donors could give, limits that...
...wear my blackness--I'm proud! [Loud grunt.]" Mr. T is still in treatment and admits he has had to turn down some projects: "I do get tired. But I needed cancer to test my faith. Now I feel the presence of God in me. I can go to sick people and say, 'Yeah, I'm Mr. T. I got cancer too.'" And, yes, he still pities the fool...
Dorothy Gallagher has written a piercingly funny book, and there's not a joke in it. In the first chapter of How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories (Random House; 187 pages; $22.95), she drags us straight into the sick room from hell. She is looking after Bella and Izzy, her failing Russian-Jewish parents. She muddles through with such wryness and tenderness and, finally, wisdom that it will make you ache for another chance to tend your own parents...
...thought he had made the world." But as her parents grow more feeble, the house begins to rot away; eventually it would take a team wearing surgical masks and gloves to clean it out. Her sweet mother is too pliant to complain, her father too stubborn and sick to think straight. Yet to Gallagher, he is still the fearless man who arrived in steerage, took jobs selling bananas (eating nothing but), delivering wet laundry in tenements before running his own garage. His only child finds that she can't tell her 90-year-old father (who made the world, after...