Tjazz

I just bought this 4-CD set. Wow, the sound quality was so bad, I sold it as fast as could.

Did BMG send you this box set in the metal case as seen at retail shops?

I've noticed that alot of the CDs that were mail order only thru Rhino Handmade are now availabe from other retailers. Is Warner (or whoever owns it) shutting down Rhino Handmade?

Angry ex-employees? Weren't the 1500 downsized employees mainly from the CD plants?

Yeah, would you want to get near him? Malone and Shaq dominate the middle. MUSCLE men

Sounds like last year's version of Turbotax. You could only print from a registered PC. So many people complained, that Turbotax changed their so-called copy protection this year.

Newly available: DOORS - Legacy (2) Martina McBride - Martina Randy Newman - Guilty (4) box set Mona Lisa Smiles (soungtrack) - Tori Amos, Elton John, Streisand, Macy Gray War - Very Best of (2)

What about some of those voters in the California recall election?

Do a new membership deal and you can get the Jack Johnson box as part of your 5 free. (sponsor)

Membership $65 / student $28

What are the fees? Can anybody join?

Yeah, I love it - Mark Mansen guarding Shaq.

I just saw a dvd with Natalie Merchant and her look reminded me of Norah Jones.

Latest releases available at BMG: Outkast - SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW Celine Dion - ONE HEART

There are some interesting stats here. I just glanced at the womens basketball and in alot of schools, the women athletes have a higher graduation rate than the average student at their school. This average graduation rate for the schools should have been posted in the article for comparison too.

There's Nothing Sweet About These Stats Six of the last 16 basketball teams in tournament had graduation rates below 50%. COMMENTARY By Fred Droz The Sweet 16 games of the National Collegiate Athletic Assn.'s March Madness tournament were played this week. It is a wonderful time to watch the skills and efforts of college athletes. It really is March Madness because you never know what will happen. Top teams get beaten. Mostly, it is a time to watch our nation's best young basketball amateurs play to their heart's best. It is also the best time of the year for me in watching sports. Like millions of other Americans, I immerse myself into this phenomenon. It is college athletics at its best. But, there is a dirty little secret to all this. Actually, it isn't much of a secret. The graduation rates of NCAA athletes are atrocious. Check out the graduation rates of the basketball players from the schools going into the Sweet 16. Six of the teams in the men's tournament had rates below 50%. The high is Duke at 67%. The lowest is Georgia Tech at 27%. (Stanford graduates 100%, but it was eliminated and didn't make the regional finals.) Here is an even better illustration of the problem. In 2002, Hawaii, McNeese State and Oklahoma graduated zero athletes. Yes, zero, nada, 0%. Yet, these three schools qualified for the first round of 64 finalists. So what? It's just a bunch of kids who play sports. Well, I think there is a lot of "what" in this issue. A lot of folks believe that the top college athletes move on to become professional athletes. Unfortunately, the statistics do not bear this out. Basically, fewer than 1% of NCAA athletes become professional athletes each year. Let's cut to the heart of the issue. Of the 64 schools that made the NCAA basketball tournament, only 25 have graduation rates above 50%. That means that 60% of these schools are graduating between 0% and 49% of their athletes. "So what" raises its ugly head again. Though these schools take in millions of dollars from ticket sales and commissions, the athletes — the performers, the income generators — are left with nothing. They don't graduate with a degree. They don't get a contract with a professional athletic team. Their jerseys are not retired. The NCAA is expected next month to pass regulations that would reward schools with high graduation rates and penalize those with low rates. This is a start. But the issue isn't just about basketball. Check out the graduation rates of schools in the other income-generating sports: http://chronicle.com/stats/ncaa/. > Do we, as viewers and supporters, have any responsibility for any of this? Maybe. Probably.

I'm not sure the bulk of their fanbase is even alive anymore... I saw the Four Freshman about 2 years ago in Florida. Most of the fans have LPs. The fan club has a newsletter that mentions the Mosaic box set. It did seem like the audience was 70 and older.

Noticed the $2 Diana Krall CD single at Borders. Has anybody heard it?

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You Can't Always Get What You Want

I like the show, but I don't have HBO. So I have to wait for the DVDs. What season are they on now?

Count beans

Wow, nice Mosiacs on top. Hope you don't have any earthquakes.

You have too many when you no longer have enough space to store the records (CD's).

The 3 year old article states JJ Jackson's age as 54. (three years ago) ?