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...Staff writer Timothy Jackson can be reached at jackson2@fas.harvard.edu...
...thought he might take his first step back into the arena in September, at the Iowa Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, where two years earlier he savaged Bill Bradley as lacking the heart to "stay and fight." But Sept. 11 intervened; instead of the battle cry Gore might have delivered, he praised his former opponent as "my" Commander in Chief. Now some Democrats are wondering why Gore didn't stay and fight. For most of the past two years, he has withdrawn inside a tight circle consisting largely of aides and friends from his days before...
...question before the court was why Michael Jackson failed to play two concerts. The question on everyone's mind was, How can he look even freakier than the last time he appeared in public? Jackson showed up in court to defend himself against a $21 million lawsuit filed by promoter Marcel Avram, who claims Jackson illegally backed out of two millennial concerts. Jackson says Avram called them off. For his first day of testimony, Jackson arrived wearing his familiar surgical mask, which he removed when he took the stand, revealing sparse facial stubble and an unexplained bandage...
...paragon of paternal concern, Mr. O'Shea Jackson, is better known to the world as Ice Cube. As a teenager, he came straight outta South Central Los Angeles as a member of N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude), the most notorious rap group from the toughest ghetto in L.A. In their hit F___ tha Police, he grabbed the mike and fulminated, "Ice Cube will swarm/On any motherf_____ in a blue uniform." That sentiment earned him a stern letter from...
...trying to catch painters in the act of making art. For his 1950 documentary, Visit to Picasso, Belgian filmmaker Paul Haesaerts asked the Spanish master to apply his magical brushstrokes to large glass plates as Haesaerts filmed from the other side. Around the same time, Hans Namuth was photographing Jackson Pollock from all angles as the American artist dripped, splashed and poured paint onto canvas. Fifteen years later, Milan photographer Ugo Mulas had something similar in mind when he asked his friend Lucio Fontana, famous for slashing through large monochrome canvases, for a chance to record his unusual technique...