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...announcement to fans on MTV's Total Request Live. "He was becoming a vampire," said Kevin Richardson of McLean's late-night habits, which frequently caused him to miss morning rehearsals. "After a while, it was disrespectful to us," said Howie Dorough. "If you have a cancer, a weak link, you have to fix the problem." McLean is expected to return to Backstreet in 30 days, at which point the group will resume their North American tour. McLean, with his naughty head wraps and tattoos, has always been Backstreet's bad boy, but he may have been pushed...
...missing? The HiFi Buys Amphitheater was pretty full but not filled. Unlike movies, concert-ticket sales take a while to trickle in; and although venues are reporting solid sales, they're not breaking records. Area: One SFX producer Gerry Barad notes that's partly the result of the weak broader economy but admits that the tour's name causes confusion: "Area: One? People are asking where it is, not what it is." Because of the genre cross-pollination, the show has fewer of those spine-tingling moments when the audience sings along as one, though when those moments do come...
...master plan by white racists, after earlier riots in Oldham and Burnley, to whip up trouble in a series of northern English cities? All these explanations had their advocates. On the airwaves and on the streets, feelings were mixed - fury at the rioters, some anger at the police for weak tactics - but mostly fear that the city, already poor and sharply segregated, is on a downward spiral. Those who pick the bones of disaster were out in force. White gangs smashed a Pakistani-owned restaurant and service station. TV crews roamed the city seeking footage of more trouble. At Lister...
...lives now in the house she shared with her husband until he died a decade ago. It's big and sturdy, all faded wood except for the stone porch. She still grows pineapples and cassavas out back; she may be old but she has to work or she feels weak. Her husband, Ji Chiu, was first generation. He came to work the tin mines, a "sold piglet," as they were called, since they were sold by their parents with no real promise of return. She met him when she sold coconut cookies to the tin miners. They had five children...
...Minuto] is, by Harvard standards, very weak academically and his application failed to present the compelling reason for admission that the College seeks in all of its successful candidates,” McGrath Lewis said in her affidavit. According to Harvard’s brief, his mixed academic record alone was a “fatal error” to his transfer application...