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Beyond Elvis and the saxophone, Clinton's musical taste is broad but bland. Early in the campaign, he sat down with Rolling Stone for a lengthy interview about pop music. Among his favorites: Judy Collins, Dolly Parton, Michael Bolton, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Harry Belafonte, the Temptations, the Beatles and Stan Getz. Nothing, in short, that cannot be easily found in a prominent place in any shopping-mall music store in America. This middle-of- the-road eclecticism is typical of Clinton's generation, lost in the rock- is-dead wilderness, casting about for a musical resting place between...
...gang only as a last resort. "It beats getting killed or blowing somebody's brains out," he explains. Most antigang workers are adamantly against such advice under any conditions. "That would be like telling the kid to go kill himself," says Swope. Then there are folks like Marianne Diaz-Parton, a gang- intervention worker for the Community Youth Gang Services Project in Los Angeles, who actually condone the beatings...
...Diaz-Parton, 33, joined Los Compadres at 13 and served three years in prison for shooting two rival gang members with a sawed-off shotgun. Since "retiring," she is frequently asked by frightened female gang members trying to get out of gangs to monitor their beatings. "They know I've got juice with the gangs," she says with considerable pride. She recalls the case of Priscilla, a 15-year-old who wanted out. Three other girls, all gang bangers, took Priscilla into a public rest room while Diaz-Parton waited outside to make sure things didn...
...fact, according to the rumor mill, Jessica Hahn may have needed them too, as may have Melanie Griffith, Jane Fonda, Brigitte Nielsen and even, gasp, Dolly Parton. Why take chances? The doctors know there are not only obvious forms of micromastia, discernible to the man on the street, but insidious, hidden forms -- very well hidden indeed...
...COUNTRY NIGHTS (NBC, debuting Nov. 24, 8 p.m. EST). Dolly Parton failed a few seasons back, but this music series will try again to cash in on the nation's love of country...