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...Gray refused to say whether President Clinton or First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton are on the list, as has been widely speculated, but said the committee is looking for candidates with "academic background" and invited reporters to draw their own conclusions...
...certainly has to have--he or she--a science background or, enough of a background in science, to know how important it is to really push forward in that area," Stone said...
Considered by many fans and critics alike to be the first "concept album," Sgt. Pepper helped raise rock and roll above its pop background. The record contained numerous hits, including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "A Day In The Life...
Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy, which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals. An estimated 10,000 people from every imaginable professional background now call themselves coaches--twice the number there were in 1998. Some 4,000 would-be coaches are enrolled in a telephone-based training program called Coach U, which takes about two years and $4,300 to complete. And the field is benefiting from the Oprah effect. When her talk show last spring featured coach Cheryl Richardson (author of the best...
...Harrison and then Starr; the early days of the band in Hamburg, Germany; and the making of each one of their albums. There are some interesting tidbits and stories along the way. Lennon (his quotations are drawn from various published and unpublished sources) says the legend of his rough background is untrue: he was "brought up to be a nice lower-middle-class English boy." Bob Dylan shows up quite a bit--his music, according to the Beatles, was an inspiration to their own work. He also turned them on to marijuana...