Word: toni
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...Toni Shayes '50 says she also was discouraged from pursuing a career in medicine...
...make a phone call. One-way pagers seem pretty antiquated these days, but two-way pagers with Web access can be a less expensive and highly portable way to access discrete bits of information. You can already use them to send and receive e-mail, buy the new Toni Braxton CD on Amazon.com ditch your Microsoft stock and get directions to the nearest cinema or sushi...
Jerkins likes to get to know performers so he can craft songs that fit their personality (he had many a phone conversation with Toni Braxton before co-writing and producing her current Top 10 song He Wasn't Man Enough). He describes his music as "an R.-and-B. pop classical sound." His songs typically mix deep bass grooves with bright rivers of strings. Listening to a Jerkins song is like driving through the 'hood in a limo. Even his missteps intrigue. On the new Spears CD, he produced a remake of the Rolling Stones' classic...
...sound and her image (she co-wrote several of the songs on Fear of Flying). "This album was an opportunity and a test," she says. Mya was assisted by a stellar group of producers, including Swizz Beatz, Wyclef Jean (of the Fugees) and Rodney Jerkins (who worked on Toni Braxton's sultry new CD, The Heat). On her previous album Mya was a lovestruck teen; on her new album she's a woman coming face to face with romantic entanglements. But, let's face it, the lyrics aren't really what matter here. What's important is that many...
...earlier this season, Jackson handed out some reading. He gave several of the players books by mystery novelist Walter Mosley. He gave Harper Toni Morrison's Jazz. And he gave O'Neal a copy of Nietzsche's Ecce Homo (How One Becomes What One Is). "It is all my art and aim," Nietzsche writes, "to compose into one and bring together what is fragment and riddle and dreadful chance." Maybe that's what Jackson does: he brings together disparate players--fragments and riddles--and makes them one. Then, again, we are talking basketball here, and maybe all Jackson is trying...