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7-Up vs. Coke Part 2
Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found the dot-com darling Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all. The spectacular flameout of a St. Louis soft-drink scion.
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras
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Ludo is fired up and ready to play on the national stage
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Curious Gorge: Ian tests the animal magnetism of Three Monkeys
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Feel a Draught?: Tigín opens an outpost in a Hampton Inn downtown? O'Really!
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (9)
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras (9)
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7-Up vs. Coke Part 2 (6)
Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found the dot-com darling Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all. The spectacular flameout of a St. Louis soft-drink scion.
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Will Ian flip for the Original Pancake House? (4)
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Is a Wash. U. dean destroying alumni records and making unjust department cuts? (3)
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Have two Nirvana producers helped create the next Metallica?
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"The Sex Song": Not TASTiSKANK's homage to Matthew McConaughey
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Bret Michaels (sort of) talks dirty to RFT
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The 75s make an extra-fancy splash with its debut record
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Producer nonpareil Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again
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Subject(s): Alicia Keys
Like many of her R&B contemporaries, Alicia Keys comes up short in the melody department: they've got the chops, the feel and even the look of their predecessors, but just don't have their tunes. So Keys' collaborative outreach on her third studio album, As I Am, doesn't seem like a bad idea. Unfortunately, the highest-profile pairings end up the limpest. John Mayer's lifeless "Lesson Learned" is the worst offender, but Linda Perry's three contributions aren't her best work either, replacing Keys' natural grit with slick pop-soul knock-offs. Much better are the charming "Teenage Love Affair" and "Wreckless Love," which strike the perfect balance between hummability and soulful heft. And "Like You'll Never See Me Again," might just be the best thing Keys has ever done. It's also the only song on As I Am penned solely by Keys with her longtime partner, Kerry "Krucial" Brothers — suggesting the help she needed might have been there all along.
