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What's remarkable about Boyz II Men is that its unabashed romanticism never bogs down the members' considerable musical skill. Motown is their label, and with their harmonies and look-alike outfits, they hark back to the classic Motown vocal groups like the Temptations. The Boyz released their debut CD just after the Milli Vanilli lip-synching scandal. It was a cynical time for pop music. Vanilla Ice had a best-selling pseudo-rap album; New Kids on the Block had gone multiplatinum. Were there any real singers left? Was everyone as fake as Rob and Fab's hair extensions...
...When the President has problems passing his bills in Congress, he should threaten them with one hour of his sax playing. Then he would have no problems with filibustering. What he lacks in skill, talent, imagination, technique and swing, he more than makes up for with desire and hustle." -- Jazz great (and Democrat) Wynton Marsalis, commenting on the President's new CD, Bill Clinton Jam Session: The Pres Blows
...true test of the elections was not who the winner would be -- Zedillo had been leading in most opinion polls since July -- but whether voters would believe that he had won fairly. During the P.R.I.'s lengthy reign, one of its ! most notorious achievements was its skill at arranging not to lose. But this time the electoral process had been significantly reformed, and more than 80,000 observers were stationed around the country to fend off the fraud that has been the rule so often before. The watchers, both Mexican and foreign, spotted many violations but agreed that they...
Lloyd lists four reasons he attributes to the program's success, which he said the camp focuses on providing: safety, skill development, unconditional customer satisfaction and an underlying fun environment...
...That skill will be crucial if a Dante-like robot is sent to another world. On Mars, for example, says Lavery, contact would probably be limited to once a < day, and even then the enormous distances would result in a minimum 10-minute time lag in communications. Dante II is not quite smart enough for full autonomy, but considering that it took less than a year to design and build, it is remarkably close to self-sufficient. Says Lavery: "The consensus was, if we had another four or five months, we would have had that ability...