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Without a federal plan that has worked, cities have lost patience, concentrating on getting the homeless out of sight. In New York City, where shelter space can't be created fast enough, Mayor Mike Bloomberg has proposed using old cruise ships for housing. New Orleans removed park benches in Jackson Square to discourage the homeless; Philadelphia launched an ad campaign asking people not to give to panhandlers; and in Orlando, Fla., a new law makes it a jailable offense to lie down on the sidewalk...
TOMMY OUT OF TUNE? During his years as head of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola had some relationships sour in very public ways. After launching the career of Mariah Carey, he married her; after a bitter divorce, she left the label. And when Michael Jackson decided that the label hadn't publicized his album enough, he drove a bus around Manhattan holding a poster of Mottola with horns. Now Mottola is facing another breakup. He announced last week that he wanted to start his own label and was leaving Sony, where since 1989 he has guided singers like Jennifer Lopez. Whether...
...that make it through the red tape of Beijing's draconian import procedures must vie not only with pirated copies but also with saw-gash versions. "It means we're competing in essence on three fronts," says an executive for a major label, who declined to be named. Michael Jackson's 2001 Invincible album, for example, was imported to China through official channels, after Sony Music removed several tracks with explicit lyrics to appease the Ministry of Culture. After the album flopped, large quantities of unsold European copies turned up on the mainland-uncensored and selling for a fraction...
Redd, along with BSA Business Manager Allana N. Jackson ’03, Kiratiana E. Freelon ’02 and Toussaint G. Losier ’04, has been working on the guide since intersession of last year. Many other students contributed interviews, essays and reviews...
Many blacks have become disillusioned by the cynicism of the Democrats' quadrennial rallying of the black vote, which typically involves sending out Jesse Jackson to round us up and deliver us to the polling place--only to ignore some issues that matter to blacks until the next election. A case in point: a recent survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank based in Washington, shows that 60% of blacks support vouchers, but almost all prominent Democrats are staunchly opposed to them. They aren't even willing to find out whether giving black kids...