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...Grammy Awards, Clive Davis will put on a tuxedo, tap a microphone and introduce guests at his annual pre-Grammy party to the best new artist--of 2004. "His name," Davis confides in advance, "is Gavin DeGraw. He's a piano player, a songwriter. A lot like Billy Joel or Elton John, but with the soul of maybe a Joe Jackson. He's gonna be a star...
...huge epic poems and verse diatribes were pouring forth - more than ninety in the 1790s alone. Slavery was taken on by the first generation of self-consciously American poets, among them Joel Barlow, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight, and Philip Freneau, all of whom saw it as anathema to America's future. In 1778 Barlow predicted that with American independence, "Afric's unhappy children, now no more / Shall feel the cruel chains they felt before." A few years later Freneau felt haunted by the continuing presence of slaves: "Half hell is in their song / And from the silent thought? - 'You have...
...year-old guest at the Catskills resort hotel went on a drunken joyride with a Honduran hotel worker and never returned. Alberto Martinez, then 23, plowed a purloined Olympic Hotel car into a tree, killing youthful passenger Joel Klein. Charged with criminally negligent homicide, Martinez jumped bail and vanished. Two weeks ago he was run to ground - by an FBI computer...
...point where we just can't keep adding more injections," says Dr. Margaret Rennels of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The only hitch: the small minority of parents who are wary of vaccines are even warier of vaccine combos. They shouldn't be, says Dr. Joel Ward, director of UCLA's Center for Vaccine Research, which tested the new vaccine, Pediarix. "This has been in development for 10 years and meets every single standard of safety and effectiveness." --By David Bjerklie
...from director John Milius: "He told me there are two people who come onto a set believing they can make the greatest movie ever--the director and the actor." And who better to make that lovely hallucination come true than the actor-director? --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Joel Stein/New York