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...When labelled a bluegrass outsider, he married into the Carter family, country music royalty. When hooked on amphetamines and long removed from the music charts, he parlayed a prison concert into a 1968 hit LP and premiered a major network TV show. Thirty years later and with his elder statesmen status locked up, Cash’s experimentalist dogma led him towards more musical risks. “American V: A Hundred Highways” is the fifth, the latest, and the last in a decade-long partnership with Rick Rubin, producer of the Beastie Boys...
...another age, Alice Roosevelt Longworth might have ended up a scientist, a writer or a particularly brutal judge on American Idol. Instead, she is remembered as one of the capital's most successful hostesses, a gifted gossip whose decades of sharing filet of beef and sly one-liners with statesmen and their wives led her to call herself "an ambulatory Washington monument...
...speculate." This is not exactly General William Tecumseh Sherman saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Close friends of Obama's say he really doesn't know yet what he's going to do in 2008. It would be nice if we statesmen of the media gave him the room to think it through-but, of course, we won't. Washington is buzzing with the possibility of an Obama candidacy; he is about to be seriously pestered for a definitive answer...
...Gaddafi as a model, Rice has signaled the Administration's priority for security over the cause of freedom that both Gaddafi and Bush love to talk about. Even though Gaddafi has done little to loosen his dictatorship, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, among other statesmen, have already visited Libya to signal the West's pleasure. President Bush, or his successor, could be next to visit the leader in his tent...
...gender roles, and an insistence that a co-ed trait be defined by old, dead men. No matter how many Erica K. Jallis and Lauren A.E. Schukers—both recent Harvard Crimson presidents—grace this campus, it appears that one of Harvard’s eldest statesmen remains blind to the changing times...