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...Plans, the band moves to the hulking multinational Atlantic, and even though big record companies are in danger of mismanaging themselves into irrelevance, the major-label debut remains an important marker in a group's development, kind of like a rock-'n'-roll Bar Mitzvah. There's a big stage, lots of buzz, some singing and, if everything goes well, checks with impossibly large numbers waiting...
DIED. BROCK PETERS, 78, stage and screen actor best known for his moving portrayal of Tom Robinson, a black man wrongly accused of rape and defended by Gregory Peck, in 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird; of pancreatic cancer; in Los Angeles. Born George Fisher in Harlem, N.Y., the gifted bass singer toured cabaret clubs before making his film debut in 1954 as a vicious sergeant in Otto Preminger's landmark all-black production of Carmen Jones. Determined to shed his villainous image, he played a gay trumpet player in the film The L-Shaped Room and won a Tony...
...this early stage, part of the trick to leading the pack is insisting that you aren't part of it. The other part is making sure you take everyone's attention away from the people who are. As less familiar hopefuls start making the rounds in Iowa and New Hampshire, McCain and Clinton say they are too busy with their day jobs--and, in her case, a Senate re-election race--to be giving 2008 more than an occasional thought. Both declined interviews for this story linking their prospects, a reticence that is not unusual for her but something that...
...officials proudly stood on the tarmac of the new Austin-Bergstrom International Airport as Air Force One taxied up with Bill Clinton inside as one of the first arrivals. The terminal has special touches: Amy's Ice Cream and the Salt Lick Barbecue Restaurant serve local delicacies, and a stage in the concourse offers live music. The airport brings in $1.8 billion annually and has created 35,700 new jobs. Bruce Todd, who was mayor in 1991, regrets the time the city initially wasted trying to fight the base closing. His advice to mayors facing what he did: "Leave...
...Woodstock scope called World Youth Day, 15 miles outside of Cologne. Some cheer the sight on the screen, others clasp their hands in prayer. There are also plenty who seem to simply gravitate toward the physical presence of their Holy Father-some running in the direction of the faraway stage, others walking in a head-up, open-mouth trance. Whether he likes it or not, Pope Benedict XVI is a star. He the first pontiff elected in the full throes of the information age, and his predecessor's sense of spectacle consecrated a natural marriage between this ancient office...