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Full-throated singer Sheryl Crow is charging that organizers of Sunday's Grammy Awards tried to muzzle her antiwar protest. Crow had been planning to broadcast her opposition to an invasion of Iraq. "The Grammy committee called up my manager [and] said they wanted to keep it all neutral," she told one reporter. "I got calls from the Grammy committee making sure I was not going to show up in an obnoxious [antiwar] T-shirt like I usually do," she told another reporter. "I've really been loud and proud about how I feel about the war," added Crow, who came with her friend,...

War talk from Kid Rock Kid Rock won't be joining the music industry's anti-war movement. "Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make s-y records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it." But it doesn't take much nudging to hear the Kid's policy analysis. "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea." Are some women and children going to die? "Yeah. But is doing the right thing. You got money,...