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...DIED. JIM CAPALDI, 60, drummer and co-founder, with Steve Winwood, of the '60s band Traffic, whose hits included Paper Sun and Hole in My Shoe; of stomach cancer; in London. After the band split up in 1974, Capaldi went on to a successful solo career, hitting the charts with a '70s cover of Roy Orbison's Love Hurts...
...chorus of keening on TV news and variety shows threatens to extend the state mourning for this talk-show host to a Reaganesque six days. On CNN (your official site for the Carson reliquary), on PBS (The Jim Lehrer News Hour) and of course on NBC (where Carson's successor, Jay Leno, emceed a comely hour last night), the Grey Panther parade of Carson's octogenarian guests came, to pay a last homage to the man who had made their careers - and, only incidentally, to score rare face time on the medium that nurtured them. "His death," David Steinberg said...
...Jim Fowler's (or Joan Embery's) wild animals, most of whom seemed unnaturally attracted to the host's hair...
...November, Rakuten won the right to create the first team added to Japan's professional baseball league in 50 years. "At first I didn't really understand the obsession that people like Rupert Murdoch seemed to have merging media with sports," he says. "But now I do." --By Jim Frederick/Tokyo...
...Security and, if they have to, would prefer to consider alternative ideas. Thomas, who thinks Social Security may need to be funded with revenues other than payroll contributions, hinted that to ensure the program's solvency, Bush should consider raising taxes--an option the President rejects. Chiming in, Representative Jim McCrery of Louisiana, head of the Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security, suggested raising the ceiling on payroll taxes, which are currently levied only on the first $90,000 a person earns. The White House opposes that...