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...organizers had hoped to lure either the Dave Matthews Band, REM or Pearl Jam to play a benefit concert in the stadium in late April or early May. James Taylor played a benefit concert in the stadium...
...Jordan-haters out there, excuse the rest of us for having followed his every move since 1998—from the charity golf tournaments to the Wizards boardrooms, from the Space Jam redux commercials to his political endorsement of Bill Bradley...
...That war, and its aftermath, helped spawn a number of songs, from Marvin Gaye?s ?What?s Going On,? a plea for peace and understanding, to Bruce Springsteen?s ?Born in the U.S.A.,? which explored the pain and confusion of a returning war veteran: ?Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand/ Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man.? ?Born in the U.S.A.? was famously misinterpreted by some as a jingoistic bit of patriotism; in fact, it is a patriotic song, but one that understands that true...
...poor taste. After telling the crowd "I love you" for the 26th time (admittedly one "I love you" was directed specifically to Donald Trump), Jackson assembled a choir of his acolytes for a jazz version of We Are the World. No one pays $2,500 to see Kenny Rogers jam with Yoko Ono and Petula Clark. But with Michael Jackson, you have to take the bad with the good...
...longtime foreign resident in this ancient capital, what's most striking about Japan's current economic depression is not how visible it is, but just the opposite. The stores appear as jam-packed as they ever were, with customers dropping unfathomable sums on handbags, and the flights to California and Hawaii are still booked up three months in advance (even if people are drawing on funds they set aside for a rainy day). Driving through Atlanta five years ago, while it was basking in its pre-Olympic boom, I saw broken windows, shuttered stores and people walking lost and disenfranchised...