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...race winds tight into these final days, both candidates are being judged not just by the promises they make but also by the impressions they leave. When Bush talks about his tax cut, it allows him to strum all the most optimistic chords of this moment: there's plenty of money, we can afford to give some back to you, you know best how to spend it, isn't this a great country? Gore tries to make a fairness attack, all those benefits going to the top 1%. But according to a TIME/CNN poll last week, Americans feel so hopeful...
...race winds tight into these final days, both candidates are being judged not just by the promises they make but by the impressions they leave. When Bush talks about his tax cut, it allows him to strum all the most optimistic chords of this moment: There's plenty of money, we can afford to give some back to you, you know best how to spend it, isn't this a great country? Gore tries to make a fairness attack, all those benefits going to the top 1 percent. But according to a Time/CNN poll last week, Americans feel so hopeful...
...saxophone solo. Frontman Billie Joe and the boys will certainly catch flak from the underground scene for this stripped-down follow-up to 1997's Nimrod. While it's not an album full of heartfelt "Good Riddance"-style ballads, it's still a punk purist's nightmare: mid-tempo strum-alongs with the trademark Green Day melodies but a distortion level of nil. First single "Minority" is probably the punkest song on the disc -and that's not saying much...
...York's Principal for a Day program. Luckily he was in the perfect position to find people who could help restore the music curriculum at P.S. 58 and hundreds of other schools. Who would be more enthusiastic about giving kids a trumpet to toot or a guitar to strum than those whose talent had been nurtured and who had got air time on Sykes' channel? Under Sykes' Save the Music campaign, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow and Gloria Estefan, among many others, eagerly raised money to purchase instruments--and that was before all the buzz about what music...
...Band or no band, I no longer harbor hope of actually appearing onstage. Okay, so maybe I still harbor just a teensy bit of hope. Mostly, though, I would love just to strum a guitar to the opening strains of "Pinball Wizard" or "Crazy on You." I'm too late in the game to be a true star, so the best I can hope for is to play along with the classic rock station...