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...book One World, utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer presents an interesting analogy for America’s current position: imagine you are walking by a shallow pond and you see child fall through the ice. She is sure to drown if you don’t save her, but if you do it will mean dirtying your pants, ruining your shoes, and being late to an important meeting. Most readers will agree that it would be very wrong to ignore the drowning child...
Great White's lead singer, Jack Russell, returned Friday to the site of the destruction to search for the band's guitarist, Ty Longley, who has been missing since the fire broke out. (He is believed to be dead.) Russell told reporters that the band's tour manager always asks for permission to set off fireworks during shows. But even Russell did not sound convinced. "The club must've said yes, or we wouldn't have used them," he said. Owners of clubs in other cities came forward to say the band--on a nationwide tour to support...
DIED. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, outlaw country singer known equally for his blaring, bad-ass anthems of love and revenge and the real-life troubles behind his surly image; in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison...
Recounting the story of her illness and recovery, the actress and singer said that although people think she was immune to criticism, in reality she absorbed everything that was said about her and her illness...
...DIED. DONALD EUGENE LYTLE A.K.A. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, hell-raising country singer best remembered for his 1977 working-class anthem Take This Job and Shove It; in Nashville, Tennessee. Paycheck recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen other hit singles, including Don't Take Her,She's All I Got and Slide Off Your Satin Sheets. When he renounced his wild ways in his 50s, he said of his fans: "They still remember me as that crazy, good-time-Charlie honky-tonker, and I don't tell 'em any different." DIED. LILIANE DE ROTHSCHILD, late 80s, quiet member...