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...Demographers now say the advent, in sheer numbers, of minorities in general and Latinos in particular, will take place mostly where it always has: on the coasts, on the borders, and in urban centers where cheap labor and ethnic diversity is most welcomed. Just as California leads America, Los Angeles - mottled population, rich white minority - may be the future of places like the urban centers of the Northeast, Florida, Texas and Washington...
Being trapped in an airplane is a miserable experience. Being trapped in an airplane and knowing that every second you sit motionless on the tarmac represents a missed meeting, a lost client, or a wasted business opportunity is sheer torture. No one knows that sinking feeling better than the millions of American business travelers who take to the air each year, many of whom have spent this summer stuck in airports, guzzling Maalox and waiting out a record number of delays and cancelations...
...Sheer exultation, of course--because any opportunity to draw attention to this hallowed music requires celebration. Originally recorded primarily in Chicago between 1925 and 1929 as what was then called race music, Armstrong's sessions with his Hot Five and Hot Seven bands quickly elevated him to national renown. They are to jazz (to American popular music in all forms, really) what Shakespeare's plays are to English literature: both the never fading banner of pure genius and the foundation for everything that came later...
...sheer carnality of the kiss - the can't-wait-to-get-back-to-the-hotel-room urgency, the sexual electricity flowing south - was riveting...
...then veering into the unintelligible. Jackson heated up as he went on, though, and got off a few lines that roused the house. But Teddy Kennedy, who has become a solid gray block of a man, a monument to the unbearable heaviness of being and to the sheer coagulation of the past, gave a dutiful fulmination that seemed to have been phoned in from far away...