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Hoop danceNakota LaRance, 8, a Hopi Indian from Flagstaff, Ariz. performs a hoop dance during the 14th annual American Indian Arts Festival yesterday at the Rankokus Indian Reservation in New Jersey. LaRance is one of more than 150 artists who performed at the three day event. 
Bob Dole is scoring points in Midland, Mich. Bob Dole is getting cheered on the fields. Best of all, Bob Dole is winning, with a record of 2-1-1.
Bob Dole is the name a group of boys in the under-14 age group chose for their team in Midland Soccer Club play.
And former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole likes it.
"I am flattered to hear about the boys' soccer team named in my honor," the former Senate majority leader wrote in a letter to coach Stacey Gannon. "The team's determination and your leadership are important to victory. I will be pulling for you."
Gannon said the players voted for Dole over Ross Perot. They saw it as a chance to prove Dole can win, he said.
Singapore is pulling Janet Jackson's "Velvet Rope."
The singer's newest album was banned in Singapore this week because of three songs about battery and abuse, homosexuality and sexuality, The Straits Times reported yesterday.
The album was to have been released Monday in Singapore but was banned by the Controller of Undesirable Publications, the newspaper said.
The paper said that the record label, EMI, was considering releasing a different version of the album in Singapore without the three banned songs. The report did not name the songs.
Fred Savage said his 1993 exit from "The Wonder Years" left people wondering what happened to him.
Like other kids his age, he went to college.
"A lot of people say, 'Well what have you been doing?'" said Savage, 21. "Like I've been sitting around doing nothing. I've been busy writing term papers and reading books."
He wrote a paper at Stanford University titled "Catch a Falling Star: The Effects of Acting at an Early Age." His grade: A-.
Savage knows the troubles of child acting, starring since age 4 in 75 commercials, two movies and "The Wonder Years" for six years. He's taking a break from Stanford to return to television in the NBC sitcom "Working."
"I don't know what else I would do," he told Entertainment Weekly for its Oct. 17 issue. "I guess I'm good with a hammer. I could be a carpenter or something."
The English Heritage's next honoree is shaking up some of those stiff upper lips with Jimi Hendrix, a rock star and a yank.
The society that has honored the likes of Winston Churchill and Lord Byron made Hendrix the first rock legend to get its distinctive blue plaques at his home.
"What's next? A plaque to Oasis?" said Clive Aslet, editor of the patrician monthly Country Life.
Others said Britain has more than its share of rock greats.
Elain Harwood of the English Heritage told Entertainment Weekly in its Oct. 17 issue that Hendrix, who died in 1970 at age 27, was selected last month because he was one of the few legends eligible.
Other musicians just weren't "dead enough," she said. "You have to be dead for at least 20 years to get a blue plaque."
Don't mess with Carl Perkins' blue suede shoes. And please return his golf clubs.
Perkins, 65, a rock 'n' roll pioneer, told police in Jackson, Tenn. Thursday that $2,300 worth of golf gear was stolen from his garage.
Perkins helped develop rock 'n' roll during the '50s and influenced later rockers like The Beatles. He had a No. 1 hit in 1956 with "Blue Suede Shoes," which was also recorded by Elvis Presley the same year.
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