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A4 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Wednesday, July 30, 1997 Honor thy sister 1 ffii Ciuj nut Counting this concert gives Meadows a thing to crow about Selena's spirit will live on in a women's clothing line bearing her name. Jerell Inc. of Dallas will market the apparel and accessories in the name of the slain 23-year-old Tejano singer. "Selena's lifelong dream was to I IlMii I embarrassment my conduct has caused," the 53-year-old author said in a statement from her home in Branson, Mo. Roberts, in a telephone interview, called Dailey's admission "very, very upsetting." Dailey has written 93 books over two decades.

This just in Political consultant Ed Rollins has moved out of his digs and his marriage leaving behind spouse and ABC communications head Sherie Rollins and holing up in an apartment six blocks away. This happened last weekend in very comfy Bronxville, N.Y., after Ed met for lunch with his romantic replacement, David Westin, president of ABC News. The two men discussed the Rollinses' adopted daughter, Lily, 2. Rollins said he's been promised he'll never be undercut by Westin in "that" relationship. On a mission By ROGER CATLIN Courant Rock Critic The Meadows Music Theatre in Hartford has been able to present most of the same concerts that have gone to the Great Woods amphitheater in Massachusetts.

Tuesday, it brought what Great Woods could not a Counting Crows show. The Crows were no-shows for their pair of Great Woods shows a week ago (leaving co-headliners the Wallflowers to fill the bill alone), because of some swollen nodes in the vocal cords of singer Adam Duritz. Shows were also canceled in two other cities. But in Hartford, although he sipped water in the middle of every song, the Crows' distinctively braided frontman was in very good voice. Pleased by the cool evening following a spell of hot outdoor shows, he put on an inspired performance, in fact, starting with an assault of up-tempo rockers punctuated by vibrant lighting, before settling into a bulk of balladry.

Throughout, Duritz kept things fresh by "changing his phrasing, repeating lines and, especially, building tension through a song. He's aided by a band that picks up his cues and shows him off to the best effect. Having begun their tour for their second album, "Recovering the Satellites" in New Haven late last year, Counting Crows is a dynamic and versatile unit by now, easily able to change instruments and shadings when the show turned from electric to semi-acoustic midway through. There, colored with accordion, mando- have her clothing Selena designs available in major department stores throughout the country," said her sister, Suzette Quintanilla Arriaga, who oversees two clothing boutiques Selena founded before she was gunned down in 1 995 by her former fan club president. The clothing line was announced last week by the family and Jerell.

Sandra Salredo, a designer whose dress and sportswear line made its debut last year, will design the Selena collection. Singled out Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite, creator of the lovably neurotic "Cathy," is getting wed. Guisewite will marry screenwriter Christopher Wilkinson in November. "I finally found him, at 46," Guisewite said. Wilkinson, who is also 46 and the author of "Nixon" will find himself in the middle of an instant family.

Guisewite has a 5-year-old adopted daughter. This is his second trip down the aisle, her first. And should you wonder: Guisewite promises she'll keep the ever-dieting, cartoon-strip "Cathy" a single person. Yet another take The verdict is in: TV has yet to tire of O.J. Simpson.

A TV movie is in the works based on "Without a Doubt," a book by Simpson criminal trial prosecutor Marda Clark, CBS announced Monday. Casting was not President Nelson Mandela has stepped up his personal campaign for Cape Town to get the 2004 Olympics, saying Tuesday the issuex involved justice for Africa. Mandela also said he may travel to Lausanne, Switzerland, for the lin and a big bass drum, many of the Crows' lyrical rural sounds took an even more homespun turn. But no songs changed as much as "Mr. Jones," the brash wish for stardom on the band's 1994 debut, "August and Everything After" that actually came true.

Introduced with a line from the Byrds' "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star," he gave it a completely different melody, and left out the line "I want to be Bob Dylan." Perhaps that's because of the co-head' liners, the Wallflowers, fronted by the sauve son of Bob, Jakob Dylan. He's man aged not only to escape from the towering shadow of his father, but also to have the better selling album of the tour. (The Wallflowers' second album, "Bringing Down the Horse," by selling 3 million copies, has beat the Crows' new album and outsold any of the 30 albums dad put out). Minus regular keyboardist Rami Jaffeej out having a baby, the band tore through its recent hits, including "One Headlight," "6th Avenue Heartache" and the current "The Difference." The cover songs included the Clash's "Brand New Cadillac" and The Band's "The Night They Tore Old Dixie Down" the closest he got to his own heritage (and the closest Hartford will get to a Band performance this summer). Opening band That Dog was not well known to the audience, which eventually exceeded 1 1,000, but presented a pleasing array of catchy pop songs with smart lyrics and disarming harmonies.

revealed. CBS said it has acquired the rights to the book written by Clark and journalist Teresa Carpenter. "This project will not be a simple rehashing of the trial or of the book," said the show's executive producer, Randy Robinson. It will examine a justice system "distorted by race and corrupted by celebrity." In the book, Clark blames Judge Lance Ito and a race-conscious, star-struck jury for ignoring evidence. She also blames Mark Fuhrman, unscrupulous defense lawyers and courtroom cameras.

Sounds familiar Romance novelist Janet Dailey acknowledged plagiarizing the work of her rival Nora Roberts and blamed an unnamed psychological disorder Tuesday. Dailey said her books "Aspen Gold" and "Notorious" contain ideas and passages lifted from several of Roberts' novels. The copying was recently discovered when Dailey got tripped up during on-line chats with readers. "I can only apologize to Nora, whom I've considered a friend, and to my readers for any pain or Mandela Sept. 5 International Olympic Committee decision.

Cape Town is considered a sentimental choice but likely to lose out to Rome when the IOC votes. Other finalists are Stockholm, Sweden; Athens, Greece; and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Mandela told a group of IOC members visiting South Africa from Holland, China, Western Samoa and Peru that Africa deserved the chance to host its first Olympics. Complied from wire reports Bands barely make getting into the Vans Warped Tour worthwhile r. WMi 1 would have sounded better in a more intimate setting in clubs, the alternating main stages worked well as soon as one band went off, the other quickly came on.

(The two adjoining secondary stages on the other side of the field featured some bands so bad, it was OK that you could barely hear them.) On the main stage, repeating local heroes Mighty Mighty Bos-stones seemed the main event for the second year in a row. Gravelly lead singer Dicky Barrett ex- Eressed how proud he was of his ome state crowd in giving every band a boost, in between songs that careered between speedy rock and horn-driven ska. Indeed, the music seemed to bounce back and forth between the two genres all day, though the Bos-stones were better by far than, say, Reel Big Fish, whose members admitted themselves how off they were most of their set. Sick of It All, practically notorious in western Massachusetts, played a fast and hard set coinciding with the hottest sun of the day. It was almost too extreme.

The dollop of melody that the Descendents employed, immediately following, was more effective overall. Social Distortion may have been the most traditionally successful band on the bill, but the group played relatively early. Leader Mike Ness, in closely shaved head, and bare chested to better show off his tattoos, snarled at some hecklers in the crowd (and in a rebuke that sounded particularly unusual even now, he told a hippie to get a haircut). But the Social D. set at least had some sense of music history beyond hardcore, starting with a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb," closing with "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash (described as "an outlaw in black" to make him more palatable to the crowd).

In between they squeezed in a couple of radio hits, "I Was Wrong" and "Ball Chain." By ROGER CATLIN Courant Rock Critic The charm of the Vans Warped Tour in the past years is that its modest roster of underground bands and skateboard athletes made it a cooler place to hang than the mammoth corporate megafests such as Lollapalooza. This year, though, with a weaker than usual Lollapalooza bill, the Warped Tour may surpass it, at least locally. Fine weather, a strong lineup and the only stop in New England conspired to make the Warped Tour one of the most populous fests in the area this summer on Tuesday. As such, 1-91 was jammed for miles and dotted with overheated cars at the noontime start. At the site, lines were long for tickets and the crowd inside the Three County Fairgrounds in Northampton, got bigger and bigger.

The move to the fairgrounds from the nearby airport, where the event played the past two years, meant more amenities as far as food booths, but it was also an especially dusty, shadeless sector of earth which, when the music flagged, made the whole place seem particularly unappealing. What's more, the success of the fest meant more and more commercial booths, the better to deliver extreme sports goods, band T-shirts and movie promotions to the captive youth. And as the afternoon wore on, tattoos got rosy with sunburn at this state fair for the dispossessed. The skateboarders seemed more skilled this year, but the half pipe demonstration area lost interest, too, after a while: They go up, they go down; big deal. As usual, it was up to the music to carry the event, though most bands Michael Lavine Sony Music Entertainment The band Social Distortion performed Tuesday in the Vans Warped Tour in Northampton, Mass.

Better state standards for education urged Teachers' union says progress being made Brennan eulogized as 'legal giant' Combined Wire Services Si7 WASHINGTON President Clinton praised the late Justice William J. Brennan Tuesday as "a legal giant" and "the balance wheel who molded the Supreme Court into an instrument of liberty and equality during tumultuous times." And Justice II. 11 in David H. Sou-ter, who succeeded Justice Brennan in 1990, concluded a poignantly personal eulogy by quoting his dear friend: "So long, pal." eryone else. I Despite the progress in writing standards, the union said, man staies till must develop tests and finjd otner means to make sure children are meeting those standards The report also said few states have high school graduation exams based on lOth-grade standards and higher, only a few help low-performing students meet standards, and even fewer are trying to end promotions for students regardless of their performance.

The offered encouragement to President Clinton by calculating that state support for voluntary national tests of fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math was widespread. The union supports Clinton's national standards proposal. Clinton, who was attending a governors' meeting in Las Vegas on Monday, again urged the state executives to lend their support to his push for national standards. Last week he had accused them of dragging their feet on the issue. The union report said all the states except Iowa were working on common academic standards for their students.

Although Iowa has standardized tests, local districts carefully guard their control of Associated Press WASHINGTON Only 17 states have standards in math, science, social studies and English that spell out what children should know and when, the American Federation of Teachers said in its annual report Tuesday. However, the teachers' union said 29 states have clear, specific standards in at least three of the core subjects, up from 21 a year earlier. Writing standards for social studies and English is generally more difficult than for math or science because the subjects are more politically loaded. Connecticut is one of 14 states with standards stronger than a year ago. Sandra Feldman, president of the union, said there had been clear progress in many places.

"Most states are firmly committed to raising their academic standards, and many are making good progress," she said. The union has been campaigning for tougher standards to make public schools more challenging and attractive. Uniform standards will assure that students in poor areas and those who move often will get the same chance at learning as ev Associated Press A bus that was carrying students and chaperone on a black history tour lies in the Nottoway River off 1-95 near Stony Creek, Va.t on Tuesday after it went off the highway shoulder and down an rmuannmeni. a cnaperone was Kinea ana trie otner 34 people on the bus were hurt, four of them seriously. The chaperone who died was regarded as a grandson by civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.

Tour bus plunges into river, killing 1 SljfUartforuironfant Telephone (860)241-6200 USPS 236 280 Justice Bren- Justice nan died last Brennan week at 91. Le gal scholars say his 34-year tenure as the leading liberal of the nation's highest court made him the most influential American judge of the 20th century. The president and Hillary Rodham Clinton joined more than 1,000 mourners, including retired and sitting Supreme Court justices, senators, diplomats and many of the justice's former law clerks and friends, for the funeral at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Afterward, Brennan was buried in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery next to the grave of Justice Thurgood Marshall, with whom he served for 23 years.

"Throughout our history," Clinton told the funeral gathering, "a few powerful ideals have transformed the lives of our people. And throughout our history, there have been a few individuals so devoted to those ideals they could hammer them on the anvil of history to reshape the land and our future. "Justice Brennan time and time again stepped into the breach to hammer them on the anvil of history, saving us from our darker impulses," Clinton said. Justice Brennan was a consistent supporter of expanding the rights of individuals often forgotten by society amonjr them welfare recipients, the mentally handicapped and prison inmates. Associated Press STONY CREEK, Va.

A bus taking children on a black history tour plunged off 1-95 into a river Tuesday, killing a chaperone regarded as a grandson to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The 34 others aboard were injured. The bus, part of a Pathways to Freedom tour co-sponsored by Parks' civil rights foundation, went off the road near this southern Virginia town and hurtled down an embankment, through trees and into the 5-foot-deep Nottoway River. Most of the injured were treated at hospitals and released, but four were seriously hurt, including the bus driver and a 16-year-old girl who broke both ankles. The driver had a hand and a foot amputated, said Gregory Reed, an attorney for Parks.

Most passengers were able to scramble out, though rescuers had to pull out three or four people trapped in the bus, which 34 hurt in crash on students' trip tipped onto its side in the water. The bus was carrying 29 youngsters, the driver and five chaperones. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. "Everyone was strong. Everyone was helping," said Patricia Ellis, 56, of Oxford, Ohio, a chaperone.

"The young people did not cry out or yell. We are a family. We all have pain because we lost a member of our family." Killed was 25-year-old Adisa Foluke of Detroit, a nephew of the director of Parks' foundation. "He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt that way about him, and that's how he felt about me," Parks, 84, said in Detroit as she waited for a flight to Virginia. "I'm just hoping, though, that the young people who survive will continue on with the program." Freedom riders during the civil rights movement had problems as well, said Nicole Houston, 14, of Denver.

"There were people that did die and they had to move on with it," she said. The students, aged 11 to 18, came from around the country to take part in a tour that began three weeks ago in Charleston, S.C., to trace the route of escaped slaves and stop in places important to the civil rights movement. The tour planned to visit 22 cities in 15 states and Canada before ending Aug. 13 in Washington. The tour was sponsored by the U.S.

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