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...Harlem, and gave a speech so buoyant and well-received it seemed like the first salvo in a grass-roots campaign to repeal the 22nd Amendment. When the once-and-perhaps-future President finished speaking, he locked arms with Chuck Schumer and Charlie Rangel and sang along to the tune that might have been his theme song for a turbulent quarter-century in politics: "Stand By Me." The song was a metaphor for racial harmony in more ways than Clinton knew; for it was written and recorded, in about a half-hour one December...
...Morris band provided a couple of entertaining exceptions: "The Applejack" had the saxes booming out thunderous elephant farts, and "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere" featured a piercing vocal by Little Laurie Tate that suggested Butterfly McQueen attempting a soul tune while having her hand hammered. But the Atlantic oeuvre was more notable for good intentions than radical R&B, let alone crossover pop-rock...
...study commissioned by Philip Morris in the Czech Republic found that a cigarette-smoking public, far from being a drag on public funds, was actually a boon to government coffers - to the tune of 5.815 billion Czech korunas, or about $147 million...
...dead-poets society. We spend a great deal of time with the dear and departed as it is. On a given day, I can read a Hemingway story, watch a Bette Davis movie, chomp on a Caesar salad in the Carnegie Deli and listen to a Cole Porter tune sung by Frank Sinatra as I take the F.D.R. Drive to La Guardia Airport, where I board a plane to Washington...
...Everywhere else, Americans rush from their high-pressure jobs and tune in to the authoritatively mellow voice of an instructor, gently urging them to solder a union (the literal translation of the Sanskrit word yoga) between mind and body. These Type A strivers want to become Type B seekers, to lose their blues in an asana (pose), to graduate from distress to de-stress. Fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen?twice as many as did five years ago; 75% of all U.S. health clubs offer yoga classes. Many in those classes are looking...