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...even that shouldn't prove so hard if one of the measures of adulthood is accomplishment. The 23-year-old singer's first album, last year's Never Never Land, has sold more than 60,000 copies, a number which might not seem special to Janet Jackson, but to a jazz artist has the same sweet sound that "NASDAQ up 100 points" has for a day trader. Last week her brand-new CD, Come Dream with Me (N-Coded Music), hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard jazz chart immediately upon its release. She has a jazz drummer fiance...
Frederick Jackson Turner had it easy. The historian forecast the end of the American frontier--and then he died. Dan Burden is left with the complicated reality of a country not just short on frontier but seemingly out of space altogether. Even in midsize cities and 'burbs, traffic congestion can be so extreme that a walk to the market is impossible, biking downtown a flirtation with death. Burden, director of the High Springs, Fla., nonprofit Walkable Communities Inc., has figured out what to do. He's the guy people call to get their space back...
...when hundreds of college students invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a math teacher, and that combination of callings helps explain what he has since become. Every Monday during the school year, Moses leaves his home in Cambridge, Mass., and flies to Jackson, Miss., to teach algebra at all-black Lanier High School. Moses, 66, is determined to make mathematical literacy as much a battle cry as voting rights were 40 years ago. He wants to overthrow what he calls "sharecropper education" by helping all students master algebra, preferably by the eighth grade...
...jury that in 1997, the Indiana Pacers stayed at the Swissotel in Atlanta. He says he and Kaplan took three entertainers - Yolanda, Kat, and Nikko - to the hotel. At Kaplan's direction, Ziggy knocked on doors and asked players if they wanted the women to come in. Mark Jackson said, "No, thank you. I'm married," Ziggy recalls. But he claims Reggie Miller took Nikko into his room and Antonio Davis requested two women. Both Miller and Davis deny this. A team spokesman says the team didn't even stay at Swissotel in 1997, but a Swissotel spokeswoman found...
...have known the President in his unpresidential days, adding dryly - and pointedly - that George was now "getting back some of his own." The crowd roared in a we've-been-there sort of way. Barbara found a middle ground between where Bill Clinton would be - calling Jesse Jackson in to pray and harking back to his alcoholic father - and the total silence of her son George. Calling it a "private matter," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer scolded reporters. "Do you want the American people to know that you're asking about private conversations that took place between the President...