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Since its birth, rock has produced a long string of guitar heroes, a list that would begin with Chuck Berry, continue on through Hendrix, Page and Eric Clapton, and include players of more recent vintage, like Eddie Van Halen and Living Colour's Vernon Reid--musicians celebrated for their sheer instrumental talent, their jazzman-like flair for expansive, showy (and sometimes self-indulgent) solos. But with the advent of alternative rock and grunge in the late '80s and early '90s, guitar heroism became uncool. Peter Buck of the influential rock band R.E.M. shies away from the exhibitionism of flashy solos...
...suite on the Sheraton's 31st floor, Clinton watched Gore's convention speech and the nomination roll call on television. In the room were his old friends Vernon Jordan and former White House deputy chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Clinton asked Bowles to check in with Morris and get to the bottom of his story. The political calculus was cold and clear: if the story checked out, Morris had to go. Having Bowles act as intermediary made more than one kind of sense. Since he was no longer in government service, he would not be under any obligation to pass...
...meantime, CNN got more information faster from the Coast Guard, had telephone accounts from eyewitnesses earlier (courtesy of two of its New York TV affiliates), and brought a former National Transportation Safety Board official, Vernon Grose, into the studio for some valuable perspective. CNN showed a tape of TWA's first press conference at 11:30 p.m. EST; MSNBC didn't get to it until an hour later. Anchor Williams, meanwhile, was forced to pause at regular intervals, compose himself for the camera and start all over again--to provide updates for NBC affiliates picking up MSNBC's feed...
...growing body of Ph.D.s, Elvis is more than a pop icon--he's a treasure trove of subjects for scholarly research. Beginning Aug. 3, two dozen academics will present papers at the latest international conference on the King, at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Vernon Chadwick, the conference director, who has made connections between Elvis' Hawaiian movies and Herman Melville's Polynesian novels, declares, "Within Elvis there is a multiplicity of topics of study." Among the conference's papers...
...Testament Scriptures, particularly the Gospels, are the most analyzed documents in history, and their authenticity has long been proved from an archaeological, historical and theological perspective. The Jesus Seminar discussions may create interesting, self-indulgent intellectual debate for its handpicked participants, but so what? ROBERT E. WILLIAMSON Vernon, British Columbia...