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...Kids are not at all defensive about being in-betweeners. Unlike their musical elders, who might fret about being corporately co-opted, these boys see sponsorship as just another welcome token of their sudden, lavish success. "Fans chasing me, McDonald's offering us endorsements -- to me, that's big," says Wahlberg, the group's offstage leader. "I mean, I came from food stamps and nothing. I'm not going to look at that and be, like, 'Oh, get out of here, McDonald's.' I'm like, 'You want to work with...
Whatever Kohl says now, it is highly unlikely that after unification his citizens or their parliamentary representatives will welcome either American nuclear weapons or soldiers on their soil at more than token levels and for more than a transitional period. For their part, U.S. Congressmen and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are unenthusiastic about sending combat units overseas to serve as political symbols -- and temporary ones at that. So the only real suspense in the next stage of the drama may be whether Germany says Danke and auf Wiedersehen to American troops or the U.S. brings them home first...
...around to act as host at birthday bashes anymore, but high-profile millionaire Malcolm Forbes figured out a way to reward friends from the grave. His yet-to-be-released will bequeaths $1,000 each to the proprietors of nine New York City dining spots "as a token of gratitude for the joy their skills and genius added to the lives of those who've been lucky and sensible enough to dine at their restaurants." Included in the list are the creme de la creme of upscale eating: Andre Soltner of Lutece, Paul Kovi and Tom Margittai of the Four...
National Basketball Association President: When the late Yale President Bart Giamatti took over Major League Baseball several years ago, some speculated that professional sports had taken its token Ivy League President. These rumors devastated Bok, who has long viewed the presidency of Harvard as a mere stepping stone on the path to becoming the head of his favorite sport--basketball...
Quite apart from the fact that the NEA gets about 69 cents a U.S. citizen a year, less than the cost of one New York City subway token, its abolition would do very little to alter the patterns of American "elite" culture (the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Museum of Modern Art or the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) but would fall heavily both on minorities and upon the cultural opportunities of the young, the poor and the "provincial." The idea of an American public culture wholly dependent on the corporate promotion budgets of white CEOs, reflecting...