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Portman argues that simply writing rock songs made him uniquely qualified to write a book for both teens and adults, a literary Gilmore Girls. "Rock 'n' roll is teenage music. But you don't stop listening to the Who when you're 20," he says. "Our entire popular culture's about high school. It's this thing that most people suffered through terribly or like to think they did." His impossibly brilliant 14-year-old character, when taking a break from getting beaten up and riddling through confused if well-meaning lectures from his righteous Bay Area stepfather, works...
...next teen novel, which takes place in the same location as King Dork--a fictionalized version of the Bay Area town he grew up in. This one centers on a group of girls who are obsessed with fortune telling. So Portman has put aside his lifelong dream of rock stardom. "I'm focusing on books right now," he says. "It's a much better...
Reeves took that lesson to heart. Even while her singing career flourished, she maintained a steady presence in Detroit, making her home in a downtown high-rise apartment with her son Eric, attending the True Rock Baptist Church every Sunday she was in the city and becoming a visible town booster who frequently popped up at school career days...
...sounding "praise and worship" music that has replaced traditional hymns in congregations looking for a younger crowd. (Recently some churches introduced the U2-charist, a Communion service set to the music of U2.) "We've been closing the gap between what you would hear in church and on a rock radio station," says Matt Lundgren, worship leader at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill. "Artists like Chris Tomlin help bridge the gap more and more...
...laws, improve rural infrastructure and social services, and preserve and strengthen democratic institutions. India also must stop the spread of AIDS, he says, and protect its environment, which is decaying fast as the economy heats up. This is all perfectly sensible, but not all of Luce's arguments are rock solid. For example, he laments the stupidity of labeling all of India's diverse Muslim groups as fundamentalists, yet he brushes off the threat from Islamic fanaticism too casually. Its reach may still be miniscule within India, but it is spreading, and the terrorists who blow up trains in Bombay...