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...raised by grandparents. He recalls "crying in the corner at parties when all the other children had parents come and pick them up." His mother rematerialized when he was 17, only to instruct him to become an engineer. He was horrified. "She turns up unannounced and expects me to listen to her. I hated her at that moment and told her I felt nothing...
...when Duke won two consecutive national championships, it really doesn't hold water these days. Sure, the pairing of senior Shane Battier and sophomore Jason Williams has taken college basketball by storm. But these guys work unbelievably hard - and their intelligence on the court belies any charges of complacency. Listen to or read any interview, and you'll find this Duke squad is unfailingly humble, a quality that's getting rare among today's college players. And before anyone starts in on the whole Christian Laettner thing, let me remind you that while he was utterly annoying, he graduated seven...
...attempt to convince America, and particularly its black musicians, that Japanese have soul too. "There are two different kinds of African-American people," he says. "One is very conservative: they believe that R. and B. or soul music is only for black people. The other type is ready to listen to any kind of music, or they are ready to listen to R. and B. music sung by non-black people." He believes there are too few of the second category working in the recording industry today...
...exists only in cyberspace - will greet us when we turn on our televisions. "Good evening, you have five e-mail messages waiting. Would you like to read them now? While you were at work today I downloaded some of your favorite music from the Internet. Would you prefer to listen to that or look over the selection of broadcast TV shows and movies that I saved...
...just drift from station to station, nation to nation, looking for nothing in particular. If you find yourself awake and restless in the darkest part of your night, it's kind of comforting to listen to someone else's dawn...