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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, February 23, 200
Santana expected to strike it rich at Grammys
The Associated Press
Clear off the mantel, Carlos Santana. You'll need room for all the trophies.
At least that's the conventional wisdom heading into tonight's Grammy Awards. Santana received 10 nominations, including the big ones for record and album of the year, and he's expected to do very well.
Grammy voters have a history of belatedly honoring industry veterans. The well-liked Santana, who played the original Woodstock, is a perfect candidate for the same royal treatment given Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton in the past.
His comeback album, Supernatural, was a phenomenal hit. Rewarding it also has the side benefit of paying tribute to its behind-the-scenes architect, Arista Records founder Clive Davis, enmeshed in a public power struggle with his corporate bosses.
Perhaps most importantly, Santana dominated the nominations in a generally lackluster year. There's no big critical favorite, no Lauryn Hill, around to complicate things.
For those reasons, we're not bucking the conventional wisdom.
Grammys are awarded tonight at the
Staples Center in Los Angeles. CBS' telecast begins at 8 p.m. Here's our handicapping of the top Grammy races:
RECORD OF THE YEAR
- Nominees: "I Want It That Way",
Backstreet Boys; "Belleve," Carin;
La Vida Loca, "Ricky Martin"; "Smooth";
Santana; "No Scrubs", TLC.
- And the winner is: Santana. Don't discount the Backstreet Boys, just because they're a boy band; the song didn't do so well just on the backs of teen-agers. Cher would make a nice comeback story, and it would be worth it to see what dress she wears. Unlike "Smooth" and "I Want It That Way," though, the other competitors have the faint whiff of novelty songs.
- Nominees: Millennium, Backstreet Boys; Fly, Dixie Chicks; When I Look in Your Eyes, Diana Krall; Supernatural, Santana; Fannah, TLC.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
SONG OF THE YEAR
And the winner is Santana. This may be its easiest win. Despite its status as best-selling album of 1998, older voters aren't going to go for Millennium. Diana Krall is too obscure, country has a hard time breaking through to mainstream voters, and Fannail didn't have a high enough
profile.
SONG OF THE YEAR
— Ninnees: "I Want It That Way," Andreas Carlsson and Max Martin (Backstreet Boys); "Livin' La Vida Loca," Desmond Child and Robl Rosa (Ricky Martin); "Smooth," Itaal Shur and Rob Thomas (Santana); "Unpretty," Dallas Austin and Tionnee "T-Wot" Watkins (TLC); "You've Got a Way," Robert John "Mutt" Lange and Shaina Twinan (Shania Twain).
And the winner is: "Smooth" sailing. Yawn. Generally speaking, the winner of record of the year will also win this category, which honors the songwriter. There's nothing to stand in its way.
NEW ARTIST
NEW INHIBITORS
- Nominees: Christina Aguilera, Macy Gray, Kid Rock, Britney Spears, Susan Tedeschi.
And the winner is: Aguilera, in an upset. Gray's album was a favorite of many critics, including this one, but not enough people bought it. If this were MTV, Kid Rock would rule, but it's not MTV. We suspect it will come down to the two teen divas; Spears has the sales, but Aguilera has the voice, and that counts for something.
FEMALE POP VOCALS
— Nominees: “Genie in a Bottle,” Christina Aguilera; “Beautiful Stranger,” Madonna; “I Will Remember You,” Sarah McLachlan; “Thank U,” Alanis Morissette; “, Baby One More Time,” Britney Spears.
MALE POP VOCALS
And the winner is: Madonna. Get this she's been around so long now that in this category, Madonna is the industry vet who stands to be rewarded for years of service. It's a good song, too. McLachlan is her most serious competition.
MAIL FOR
— Nineimes: "I Need to Know," Marc Anthony; "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)," Lou Bega; "Sogno," Andrea Bocelli; "Livin' La Vida Loca," Ricky Martin; "Brand New Day," Sting.
And the winner is: Martin. Shake your bon-bons. Ricky!
ROCK ALBUM
— Nominees; *Breakdown*, Melissa Etheridge; *Significant Other*, Limp Bizzik; *Echo*, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; *Californication*, Red Hot Chili Peppers; *Supernatural*, Santana.
And the winner is: Not Santana! Well, it will be if voters don't pay attention. But our pick is Red Hot Chili Peppers' fine Californication.
Reading aloud
Nancy C. Sorel reads an excerpt from her book, The Women Who Wrote the War, yesterday in Rick Musser's graduate seminar, The Life and Times of Edward R. Murrow. Sorel's book is a history of female World War II correspondents that features Martha Gellhorn, writer and wife of Ernest Hemingway and photojournalists like Margaret Bourke-White. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
Starr blames Clinton for prolonging expensive, lengthy investigation
The Associated Press
EVANSTON, Ill. — Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr says President Clinton is the reason his investigation dragged on for years and cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
"It could all have been (avoided) simply by saying. "There was this activity." Starr said. "I shouldn't have done it, let's get it behind us as reasonably as we can."
He said "Clinton has an unfortunate side, an unwillingness to come to grips with the situation that would have
Starr: blames Clinton for the length of the investigation
spared everyone all the angst ... by coming to grips with it and to say 'here it is' as opposed to dragging the country through it and then suggesting that it's all the law off-
cer's fault."
As an example, he said the media did not provide accurate reports of the trial of former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker in large part because reporters did not cover the trial day in and day out.
Starr said the public did not always get an accurate picture of what was going on with the investigation that led to Clinton's impeachment because news reports were at times incomplete and therefore misleading.
Starr sounded gracious when talking about first lady and Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying her statement that his investigation was part of a vast right-wing conspiracy was sort of an understandable defense mechanism.
High Court to rule on legality of random auto checkpoints
Starr's successor as independent counsel, Robert Ray, is closing out the six-year, $50 million investigation that led to the convictions of 14 people. In addition to Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky, Starr's office looked into the purge of the White House travel office and the White House's improper gathering of FBI background files on employees and presidential appointees from Republican administrations.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, taking a new look at the privacy rights of Americans in their cars, said yesterday it would decide whether police could set up random traffic checkpoints and stop motorists to search for illegal drugs.
The justices said they would review a federal appeals court ruling that said checkpoints where Indianapolis police detained most motorists for about three minutes likely amounted to unreasonable seizures in violation of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment.
A decision, expected sometime next year, will provide the court's latest word on the amendment's scope.
"This is a significant case, one that will define a city's power to conduct random searches of vehicles whenever it perceives it has a problem," said Kenneth Falk, the Indiana Civil Liberties Union lawyer representing two men who challenged the police practice.
Falk said a ruling that allows such searches for drugs also could allow random stops to find people who fail to make child-support payments or people who have not paid traffic fines.
Gary Secrest, a lawyer for the city, said the Supreme Court appeal was filed to keep open all options for detecting and arresting people who used or sold illegal drugs
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the checkpoints once used by Indianapolis were different because the city's goal was to catch drug offenders in the hope of incapacitating them, and deterring others, by criminal prosecution.
the city began its narcotics checkpoints operation in the summer of 1998. A predetermined number of cars were stopped at one time, and drivers were asked to show police their licenses and car registration while a drug-sniffing dog walks around the parked cars.
Police conducted six roadblocks in highcrime areas in the program's first four months and stopped 1,161 vehicles. The stops led to 104 arrests, 55 of them on drug-related charges.
Two Indianapolis residents, James Edmond and Joel Palmer, said in a suit that the police tactics were unconstitutional
A federal trial judge ruled that the city was not violating any rights. But a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court reversed that ruling by a 2-1 vote in July.
The appeals court said the trial judge might find another reason to uphold the checkpoint program, which has been suspended.
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