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...Journey found Pineda is a Cinderella tale of the Internet era. After the band dismissed Soto last June for unspecified reasons, guitarist Neal Schon turned to the Web in search of talent. After two days of surfing on YouTube, he came upon clips of Pineda singing with his band, The Zoo, and nailing all the right notes in the toughest Survivor, Queen and Journey power ballads. "I heard his voice and my eyes got big," says Schon, who has been with Journey since its inception in 1975. "I thought, he can't be that good." Schon left his house, took...
...Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...Thorn, who lives along the rampaging Iowa River near a major dam in rural Iowa City, fears his home is destroyed. "I'm assuming it has at least eight feet of water," says Thorn, who voluntarily evacuated with his wife on June 7 when "water just started to lap at the door...
When they are not busy delivering packages, most of these New York bike messengers see the city streets as their unofficial playground, and at times, their illegal racetrack, facing off in street contests they call "alley cat races." But on June 15, they participated in a different kind of race - one that did not involve dodging pedestrians or weaving through rush-hour traffic at 25 miles an hour. There are differences between the messengers and the pros. The street riders' pre-race diet is often beer instead of energy drinks. It was also an alien locale. The race, part...
...shrink-proof. Only 23% of Hispanics think of themselves as Republicans, a Pew study found last year. And Obama will have one enormous advantage in wooing Hispanics that McCain lacks - money. It was reported this week that Obama may come close to raising close to $100 million in June, a political fund-raising threshold virtually without precedent. If Obama's donors can maintain that pace, they may be able to raise as much as $300 million for the fall campaign, a tally that would swamp McCain's more limited campaign treasury of $75 million. In past elections, Hispanics have...