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Pharrell Williams the idiot, it turns out, is the ironic creation of Pharrell Williams the geek. "I'm no rapper," he says sheepishly. "I'm, like, a suburban kid." Ever since Williams, 30, and Hugo met in seventh grade at a school for gifted children in Virginia Beach, Va., they have been masking their insecurities beneath the brashness of hip-hop. The key to their success is that while fantasizing about being tougher than leather, they never forgot that they were softer than puppies. "A lot of people get caught up with making music into their identity," says Williams...
Those pernicious 16 words in the State of the Union speech will not topple the Bush presidency because the cumulative case for ousting Saddam was cogent, obvious and urgent. Arguments over such a trivial statement do not warrant this much hand wringing. KEVIN BARKER Bristow, Va...
...about having sex with an intern than it was for a President to lie to the American people, justifying a war on the basis of forged documents about uranium products. One lie led to impeachment; I am afraid the other lie will lead to re-election. CAROLYN MAKI Midlothian, Va...
DIED. VANCE HARTKE, 84, three-term Democratic Senator from Indiana; of a heart attack; in Falls Church, Va. A populist and passionate liberal, Hartke was known in the Senate for his early opposition to the war in Vietnam. In 1966, more than two years before America's deep divisions over the war would become dramatically clear at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he was one of six Senators to draft a letter to President Johnson, his onetime mentor in the Senate, seeking a suspension of bombing in North Vietnam...
...Diego. The report alleges the imam was observed holding "closed-door meetings" with the hijackers. FBI officials discount that allegation, from a single, dubious source. But both FBI and congressional investigators want to know why Al Hazmi and a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour, showed up at a Falls Church, Va., mosque shortly after the imam transferred there in 2001. "In my view, he is more than a coincidental figure," says House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif...