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"On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and then vanished without a trace" In the world of early-20th-century African-American music and people obsessed by it, who can appear from one angle like a clique of pale and misanthropic scholar-gatherers and from another like a sizable chunk of the human population, there exist no ghosts more vexing than a couple of women identified on three ultrarare records made in 1930 and ’31 as Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley. There are musicians as obscure as Wiley and Thomas, and musicians as great, but in none does the Venn...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Savvis Communications said on Monday it had placed its chief executive on unpaid leave and will launch an internal probe related to a credit card company lawsuit alleging he was two years late in paying $241,000 in charges at a Manhattan strip club. The telecommunications carrier said Robert McCormick was placed on unpaid leave effective Monday, pending the outcome of the investigation. Jack Finlayson, president and chief operating officer, has been appointed acting CEO. The lawsuit, brought by American Express against McCormick and Savvis last week, charges that the two were late in paying charges rung...

The issue: An appellate court ruled that college newspapers aren't protected by the First Amendment.We say: Students and college officials need to work more closely to protect First Amendment rights.Our ViewLast month, the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago(which encompasses Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin) ruled against three former journalism students at Governors State University in nearby University Park. The three sued a dean who ordered the printer to cease printing any more issues of the student newspaper after an article including details of the paper's former adviser's dismissal from the university was published. The court contended that since...