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...Qaeda. Because if she couldn't wriggle out of her clothes on a stage in Puerto Rico and ask, as she did in an NBC special aired last week, "Is it hot in here?" then, well, the terrorists would have won. For unlike Janet Jackson, who canceled her European tour, Lopez is going ahead with hers. "These are terrible times," J-Lo says, "but I think that as an artist I have a responsibility now to bring some lightness into people's lives with my music." Oh, yes, her music. She also stuck to a commitment to make two British...
...Throughout that night, Stevie Ray unleashed a torrent of blistering, fiery blues, but in a bizarre historical turn, the audience’s reaction mixed applause and jeers in equal parts. The story goes that Vaughan left the stage in tears, but his performance went down in musical lore. Jackson Browne and David Bowie bore witness to the spectacle. On the spot, Browne offered Vaughan free studio time and Bowie badgered the now-not-so-crushed guitarist to record guitar licks for his upcoming Let’s Dance album. Vaughan accepted, and was soon catapulted to superstardom during...
Luke R. Long ’03 is a fourth-generation rancher and the first student from Jackson Hole High School to attend Harvard. He’s had to endure some aesthetic disappointment here in the big city. “Jackson Hole was gorgeous, an amazing way to live,” he shares. “To leave that was hard...
...before Sept. 11. Al-Qaeda has agents in dozens of countries, including the U.S. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, to cite just three wartime American leaders, bent the peacetime structure of rights to avert national disaster. President Bush is right to follow their example. As Justice Robert Jackson said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact...
...Ants have a couple of fun-enough tunes up their short sleeves. They have Michael Jackson in their back pocket, at least for a little while. And, decent guys that they are, they’re probably at less risk of self-destruction than their darker, more violent cousins in rock. What they don’t have is a very distinctive sound, or a very impressive show, or anything to indicate that better things...