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Two hours after getting drunk on the rhetorical moonshine served up by Bill Clinton Wednesday night, delegates and hacks won’t stop believin’ there’s a decent place to get a real drink in this dismal Southern burg. We’re stumbling thirstily along South Tryon Street at 1:31 a.m. when a hunched lone figure is stopped by an excitable young woman. Dude is dressed all in black, scraggly beard, greasy hair, tiny frame. He’s so aggressively meek that he’s gotta be a celebrity of some sort. He looks like the rough draft they threw out when they were making Johnny Depp. AP Girls...

...but she doesn't think America's changed at all when it comes to race relations. "The blacker you are, the worse it is for you...

... The most talked about Democratic fund-raiser before the convention was at Radio City Music Hall, featuring Whoopi Goldberg, the comedian and former Slim-Fast pitch person. ... Linda Ronstadt stopped an innocent gig in Vegas to make a demented pitch for "Fahrenheit 9/11." Hollywood's become a town of Demophiliacs. ... Hyper-politicized Hollywood is the new bed Bill Clinton made for the Democrats, and now the party is going to have to lie in it.... Mr. Kerry has raised $47.5 million in California. Al Gore raised only $5 million. Isn't it becoming harder by the day to take the Democrats seriously...

MILAN, Italy (AP) - Hip-hop soul star Mary J. Blige canceled a concert in Milan scheduled for next Tuesday out of fears of a terrorist attack, citing a U.S. State Department warning last month that Americans could be targeted here, her promoter said.The State Department issued a warning of ``possible threats'' to U.S. citizens in the cities of Milan, Venice, Florence and Verona on Easter Sunday, March 31. Officials have refused to give details about the threats.Concert promoter Clear Channel Entertainment said Wednesday that the warning led Blige to cancel the show.``Following the American government statement to its citizens regarding...