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Long New Yorker essay on Ellsberg and his new book on the Pentagon Papers: To anyone over a certain age (forty-five?), Daniel Ellsberg needs no introduction, but it would be quite a challenge to explain Ellsberg to someone who had never heard of him. There was this brilliant young man …

Protest against development of Icelandic wilderness area: The mother of pop singer Bjork says she is frail but determined to continue her hunger strike against a plan to develop the Icelandic highlands. Hildur Runa Hauksdottir stopped eating Oct. 7 to try to persuade Pittsburgh-based Alcoa Inc. to pull out of …

PW Daily on the lavish new Stones memoir: Bill Wyman has been a great pack rat. In some 40 years touring with the Rolling Stones, he amassed a treasure trove of material, including rare photographs, tour posters and ticket stubs, letters and telegrams. These objects–combined with his surprisingly crystal-clear recollections …

Study shows consumers will avoid them: Music companies thinking of distributing copy-protected CDs to protect their content from piracy will likely raise the ire of consumers while lowering their revenue, a new study warns. According to a survey recently released by GartnerG2, the research service of Gartner/Dataquest, 77 percent of …

TP tells Rolling Stone what frosts his flakes: 1 Radio is not even worth listening to “I don’t really give a flying fuck about any of it. I’ve tuned out. But I was elated when my song was banned. I mean, nothing could have complimented me more than to hear …

DVD burners look to be big holiday sellers: This holiday season, electronics companies and computer makers hope DVD “burners,” or recorders, will become a hot new product, following the success of compact-disc burners in recent years. Another industry, the movie business, has reason to dread the same prospect. THE RISING …

Tom Dowd, producer of Aretha Franklin, Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and engineer of dozens of Atlatnic classics dies at 77 in Florida: Dowd died on Sunday morning at a nursing home in Aventura after fighting a respiratory disease for two years, his daughter, Dana Dowd, said. “His contribution …

Dana Gioia proposed by the White House to head National Endowment for the Arts: He is a writer with a background as a businessman. He is a registered Republican who voted for George W. Bush and for his father before that. His poetry is not political. His criticism, essays and …

Eminem appears to have transcended barriers by focusing on class over race, living out a sociologist’s dream: The Bronx River Houses are hallowed ground in the hip-hop world, one of the neighborhoods where young African-Americans and Hispanics helped create a new art form in the 1970’s. The housing project in …

Still sounding dangerous and subversive, the Sex Pistols' one and only studio album a quarter-century later.