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...religious right is escalating the battle with tactics that have the sting of an all-out assault. "They use the gay issues to whip up hysteria among their own ranks, which helps them raise money, rally troops at the local level, build infrastructure and effectively challenge issues at a federal level," says Elliot Mincberg of People for the American Way, a liberal watchdog group. "In many respects, it's a national witch-hunt...
According to one of Jones' more insubstantial theories, the Oklahoma bombing may have been a government sting operation that got wildly out of hand. Strassmeir, he hypothesizes, may have been an FBI informant who attempted to entrap McVeigh in a phony bombing scheme, only to see his intended victim carry the plan to its conclusion. Two weeks before the bombing, McVeigh placed a call to Elohim City, and Jones believes that McVeigh was trying to reach Strassmeir. McVeigh isn't saying whom he was calling. Strassmeir says in any case no one told him about the call or summoned...
...STING, UNLIKE BOY GEORGE AND David Lee Roth, will never be an answer to such trivia questions as, "Name a lead singer from an '80s megaband who went on to have a disappointing solo career." Sting has managed to stay relevant--and popular--by continuing to create gently innovative music that borrows from other sources so wisely and so well that the resulting sound is truly his own. "I'm interested in impure music," says Sting. "Pure rock, pure jazz or pure anything just doesn't interest me. This is the game I play." In that spirit...
Given his more than 20 years in the music business, there is little on vinyl or CD that Sting has not already had a chance to be inspired by. "I have teenage children, and I hear their music in the house, by accident--I'm intrigued," says Sting, comfortably domesticated at age 44 (a wall in his huge getaway apartment in New York City is covered with pictures of his six children and his second wife, actress and film producer Trudie Styler). "But with new pop music, it's very rare that I hear music that I can't recognize...
...Sting, however, is Sting. In 1985, after almost a decade fronting the reggae-tinged rock band the Police, Sting launched a solo career with the release of The Dream of the Blue Turtles, a slickly adventurous album that featured saxophonist Branford Marsalis and keyboardist Kenny Kirkland. All Sting's six solo albums have been distinctive: The Dream of the Blue Turtles, with its anti-cold war rant Russians, was the most pointed; the 1991 release The Soul Cages, much of which concerns the death of Sting's father, was the most personal. Mercury Falling stands out as his most consistently...