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...high points of the current concert tour is Springsteen's heartbroken guitar-and-harmonica version of what he calls "the best song ever written about the promise of America, This Land Is Your Land. It's a promise," he adds, "that's eroding every day for a lot of people. Countries are like people. It's easy to let the best of yourself slip away...
Francis' history thus unfolds from the leisurely perspective of eternity, with frequent interruptions from the two immortals guiding the tour. Given this long view, episodes tend to cluster into something resembling a preordained pattern. Born in a backwater village in eastern Canada, Francis had his maternal grandfather to thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes...
...factor in this year's selection was the five-day visit to China last October by the TIME Newstour of civic, academic and business leaders and Time Inc. editors. After viewing some of China's free-market experiments and spending more than an hour with Deng, the tour participants agreed that the country's transformation far surpassed their expectations. Says Senior Editor Henry Muller: "In addition to the physical dimension--the construction and the traffic--we were struck by the openness and pragmatism of the officials we met. They subjected us to none of the ideological rhetoric you get from...
...Books The Good Apprentice is a tour de force of narrative energy. The year's best...
...will be his last major fund-raising effort. Now, he feels, "I have to concentrate on making a living. I have to remove myself and distance myself and start to think in a musical frame of mind." He and his band, the Boomtown Rats, have just completed a mini-tour of Italy. Geldof will use his share of the proceeds to pay off some accumulated debts and replenish savings depleted by his worldwide drumbeating. "We don't take any administrative costs on Band Aid and Live Aid," he reminds everyone. "My phone bill is in the thousands...