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...Marc Rich., 65, one of the world's most wanted white-collar fugitives. In 1983, the brilliant, rapacious commodities trader, along with his partner, Pincus Green, was charged with an illegal oil-pricing scheme that amounted to what might be the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million - not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody was as lucky as Rich; junk-bond king Michael Milken, who was opposed...
...propels the last few months, here. It is something akin to the closing minute of the Beatles' song, "A Day in the Life." Over the course of a short time, so many moments conspire in a melody that rises to a fever pitch until that final instant when the tune verges on cacophony, and the song abruptly terminates, leaving you listening to a single lingering note signaling the close of a chapter to your life...
...office, he believes, he performed his first symbolic act in the rollback of Clintonism. At nearly every campaign stop for 18 months, Bush promised that when he raised his hand and swore on the Bible, he would be restoring "honor and dignity" to a sullied White House. The tune in Washington will now come from the B side of the baby boom - the kids who never dreamed of turning on, tuning in or dropping out. Clinton and his staff were hardly hippies, but the Bushies regard them as such. "There will be no blue jeans in the Oval Office," sniffs...
...cult figure/ elder statesman in Brazilian music, effortlessly blending samba and the blues; imagine a middle-aged South American Robert Johnson and you've pretty much got it. He with two acoustic guitarists on either side. He started out with the song "Fadas" a graceful, toe-tapping tune that that skips along as lightly as a stone across a pond. Next he flowed into the goodhearted song "Diz Que Fui Por Ai"; during the instrumental break, he couldn't resist dancing around his stool as his guitarists carried the melody. It was pure enchantment; not just Brazilian music...
...mail or Fed-Ex. Taylor's sleepy performance arrived by Pony Express. And his rendition of "Only a Dream in Rio" was an embarrassment; I'm surprised he had the guts to deliver such a lackluster performance of that particular song in the very city that helped inspired the tune. Then again, by that point Taylor may have been asleep too. Did I mention he was boring as hell...