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...these years, we thought MICHAEL JACKSON was beyond race, beyond gender, beyond defeat. Now we learn he loves to trumpet his ethnicity and is willing to admit he can fail. The problem is, he's having trouble accepting responsibility for that failure. Angry that his last album, Invincible, sold only 2 million copies in the U.S., Jackson is blaming his record label, Sony, for not promoting the CD with ads on his TV special, among other things. So the dethroned King of Pop rented a bus and, clutching a picture of Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola sporting demonic horns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 22, 2002 | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

Fairness is another concern. Edwin Darden, senior staff attorney for the National School Boards Association, agrees that the ruling "captures the imagination that some nice kid who blows the trumpet, is in the chess club or is in the Future Farmers of America will be subjected to all these drug tests." But in practice Darden expects "a nonreaction" similar to what followed the 1995 ruling on athlete testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Learning | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...minutes ago; now she's jizzed. The horn section starts bleating like impatient klaxons, modulates seven times, up the whole scale, as the dancers do slide-taps, facing each other, too close for comfort. Something's got to give, and it's the music. The trumpet blasts a kind of sexual cavalry call, to which the two respond with a furious stomp; they've got firecracker feet. Fred takes Ginger in his arms and leads her in eight spins, as delirious as they are precise. The courtship is over. This is the real thing: sex as hot, fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: A Stellar Astaire | 6/22/2002 | See Source »

Stanford’s admissions viewbooks loudly trumpet perhaps the most important difference between it and the northeast Ivies...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Kid on the Block | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...family of the band members assembled, on the second floor of the House of Blues. They ordered vodka tonics at the bar, alongside the musicians ordering bottled water. D.O.F.C., an eight-piece band specializing in soul and funk, were the first group to go on, comprising guitars, drums, harmonica, trumpet and saxophone. The band played classics such as “Jungle Boogie,” as well as a few original songs. The strongest elements of their performance were the two very gifted lead singers, Patrick Parks and Taryn Carter. The group has only been together...

Author: By Isabelle Holden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Graduates | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

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