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Chicago Region Unemployment Reaches 26-Year High Top
Unemployment in metropolitan Chicago has reached a level not seen since August 1983. More on Layoffs
 
Michael Jackson Prescription Drugs: Brian Oxman, Family Spokesman, Says He "Warned" Family Jackson Might Be Abusing Prescription Drugs (VIDEO) Top
Brian Oxman, Jackson family spokesman and attorney, reacted to the tragic news of Michael Jackson's death on CNN. He said he was "stunned" and that he cried with the family. He also said that the people surrounding Michael were "enabling him" and that he warned the family that Michael may have been abusing prescription drugs. Watch the interview below. More on Michael Jackson
 
Emanuel On Madigan Senate Run: 'She's The Most Popular Political Figure In Illinois' Top
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel danced (he was a ballet dancer, you know) around a reporter's question at breakfast this morning of whether Barack Obama wants Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to run for the president's Senate seat. More on Senate Races
 
The Hollywood Ham: Michael Jackson Dead, Facebook Reports Top
Social networking/news website Facebook interrupted its coverage of Farrah Fawcett's passing to break the story of Michael Jackson's death, as thousands of users updated their status messages with the announcement. "RIP MJ ILL MISS U," wrote Facebook user/reporter Jennifer Collins who was on hand at her computer at the King of Pop's time of death. Messages from Facebook's millions of highly regarded news correspondents flooded the "News Feed" the moment the UCLA Medical Center made the death announcement official. Most were written in a solemn tone and the high level of the writing was both a testament to Jackson and the quality of reporting that Facebook is known for. "OMG Jacko is dead," wrote Robert Alper, whose profile picture had been changed to a picture of Macaulay Culkin. "I want you back." Many of the website's columnists were quick to offer their editorial opinion. The articles were posted immediately, raising the question of whether or not they were written beforehand in anticipation of the devastating event. "I love Michael," Zak Richmond wrote in his column, which was so eloquent it had to have been written weeks ago. "I've changed my ringtone to 'You Are Not Alone'." Not all Facebook journalists were as respectful, offering crude jokes instead of tributes. "I wonder if he'll invite little boys to sleep with him in his coffin ha ha aha ha ha!" some asshole wrote. Articles such as this were not well-received by the legions of Facebook readers. "Totally inappropriate," said one disgusted fan as they uploaded pictures to an album titled "My cat is cute." Many users of the site who had not updated their statuses were grateful for the "News Feed" to inform them of Jackson's death. "Thank God I checked Facebook," said user Ryan Behl, who also used the site to follow its coverage of the riots in Iran. "Facebook's reporting is far superior to Twitter's." Facebook has promised regular updates from its top reporters over the next few hours. At least until someone else dies. -Dan Abramson, thehollywoodham.com Follow The Hollywood Ham on Twitter and Facebook More on Michael Jackson
 
John Hood: Michael Jackson Was My First Top
It's one of those nights I'll never forget. Mike and I had been dreaming about it for years, through all the play-acting and the lip-syncing and the record-buying and the cartoons. We would hope and we would pray: What if one day we could see the Jackson 5? Then it happened. The local radio station Y-100 announced that the Jackson 5 would be performing at the old Miami Beach Convention Center (now named the Jackie Gleason Theater). I heard the news first. And raced out my back door, through my backyard, jumped the fence and started banging on Mike's patio door. "They're coming! They're coming! The Jackson 5 is coming!" Mike was there in a flash. "What?!? What?!? For real?" "Yes!," I said. "I just heard it on the radio!" Mike started jumping up and down; I started jumping up and down. Then we were jumping up and down together. Arms around each other and shrieking like madmen. Well, we were shrieking like mad kids, anyway. See Mike and I were only 10-years-old then. And, truth be told, our shrieking could easily have been mistaken for that of young girls. We didn't care. The Jackson 5 was coming to town and we were going to get to see them! Then it hit us: Would our parents actually let us go to the show? Mike and I looked at each other, then sat down on the ground and began to consider our options. We could go with our folks, but our dads probably wouldn't want to. That would mean going with our moms. And no self-respecting ten-year-old wants to go to a concert with their mother. What if we got to meet Michael? We'd be mortified if he saw us there with our moms. So Mike and I decided right then and there: we would convince our parents to let us go alone. It took some doing. Whining and pleading and begging and, I believe, promising to be good, eat our vegetables and do every chore our parents could imagine for the rest of our lives. If I remember correctly, Mike's folks caved first, though he may just have made it to my side of the back fence before me. Whatever. We were going to the show and we were going solo! Of course we needed new outfits. And there too our folks humored us, taking us to the mall for fancy bell bottom corduroys, bold-striped polyester shirts and short-platform heels. Man, we looked good enough for the stage ourselves. We were dressed and ready to go at least four hours before we were due to leave, so we decided to play all the Jackson 5 records and imagine which songs they'd be singing. "I Want You Back" and "ABC"? Definitely. "I'll Be There" and "Maybe Tomorrow"? How could they not? Mike wanted to know if I thought they'd also play "How Funky is Your Chicken" since that song from the Third Album had cracked us up since we first saw the title and then had become our own special secret favorite. When our moms knocked on Mike's bedroom door we froze as if we were trying to hide something. Uh-oh. It's time, isn't it? We looked at each other. We looked at the door. Then we each took deep breaths, opened up and walked purposefully out of Mike's bedroom. "Come on, already! Do you want us to be late?" Our moms let us get away with the charade just as they had so many others, and both were beaming by the time they got out to the car to drive us over to the Beach. Mike and I blabbed the whole way, naming songs and recalling trivia and imagining what we'd say when we saw Michael. "I'll tell him we have every record but we're not fans like girls," said Mike. "Yeah, that's a good idea. Tell him we just collect them." "Do you think he'll want to hang out?" "Probably. If he's not bothered by too many amateurs." I'm sure our mothers were cracking up inside, but Mike and I were serious. We considered Michael and his brothers to be our friends. And there's no reason why friends can't come over and hang out. After admonishing us for the umpteenth time to meet them right there at this spot right after the show, Mike and I broke free of our moms and strutted into the Convention Center as if we'd done this a thousand times before. But we hadn't. And the crush of long hair and afros and long-legged women had us dizzy. Then again, maybe it was that sweet funny scent that was making our heads swim. Or maybe we were just giddy with over-excitement. I don't really remember all the songs the Jackson 5 played that night, or even if they played that "Funky Chicken" number. I do remember that Mike and I were laughing and dancing and happier than we'd ever been in our lives. More important, we were cool, like Michael himself, and all because we were in his company. Thanks, Michael. Really. More on Michael Jackson
 
Quinn: Budget Cuts Could Mean 2,200 State Layoffs Top
CHICAGO (AP) -- Gov. Pat Quinn announced Thursday that 2,200 state employees could lose their jobs as he attempts to cut an additional $1 billion in state spending amid continued uncertainty about the Illinois budget. Quinn also wants state employees to take 12 unpaid furlough days and have their wages frozen. "We have to cut costs, cut costs and cut costs," Quinn told business leaders at a gathering of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce at a downtown Chicago hotel. The state's largest employee union, which would have to agree to furlough days and other concessions, said it had already dismissed the idea in an earlier meeting with Quinn administration officials. "We made very clear that we don't believe it would make a significant difference toward balancing the budget," said Anders Lindall, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. With a new fiscal year starting Wednesday, the state budget is far from resolved. Quinn continues to insist on an unpopular income tax that he says will help close a $9.2 billion deficit. He has warned about deep cuts to social service programs without the tax increase because there's not enough money in a makeshift budget lawmakers already approved that the governor calls "half-baked." But Quinn has backed away from those threatened cuts in recent days. "I'm not going to accept that budget," he said. "I'm going to send it right back to the Legislature, and we're going to sit there and we're going to get a full budget." If Quinn does that, the groups facing cuts won't be saved, they'll just be thrown into limbo until a state spending plan is eventually worked out. The Democratic governor did offer new details Thursday on concessions he's willing to make to build legislative support for his income tax increase. Quinn said he would settle for raising the corporate income tax rate to 6 percent from 4.8 percent, instead of the 7.2 percent he originally proposed. He hasn't budged on the personal tax rate, which he wants to move up to 4.5 percent from the current 3 percent. Patti Schuh, spokeswoman for Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno, was unmoved. "We've been clear and consistent that there's lots of things that need to be done in state government and a tax increase is not the first one," Schuh said. Quinn has gotten no guarantees his new proposal would win lawmakers to his side. "There's no promises for votes at all," he said. As time runs out for an alternative budget, Republicans have been pushing for a short-term spending plan to give lawmakers more time to sort out the state's finances and move forward with some of the spending reforms and government efficiencies the Republican party has called for. Republicans have new leverage because any new budget or tax increase needs a super majority to pass and that requires their support. Quinn said he's "not very excited" about a short-term budget to keep government running. "I think that's just postponing our rendezvous with reality," he said. -ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
Many States Still Fail To Disclose Finances For Lawmakers Top
Two southern states -- Louisiana and Mississippi -- made the biggest strides in the Center for Public Integrity's latest financial disclosure rankings for state legislators, but 20 out of the 50 states still received a failing grade and three of those states have no disclosure requirements at all. Fourteen states in all have improved their disclosure laws since the Center's last survey in 2006. In addition to Louisiana and Mississippi, Oregon, and Connecticut moved up in the rankings, while Massachusetts suffered the biggest drop.
 
Andrew Bergman: Clarence Thomas Stands Up for the Right to Strip Teenagers Naked Top
Hats off to Justice Clarence Thomas for his courageous stand on behalf of school officials' right to strip teenagers naked in an effort to find prescription pills. This great man has more than justified George H.W. Bush's faith in his character, dignity, and wisdom. Taking a position at odds with such moral relativists as Scalia, Roberts and Alito, Justice Thomas once again proved that he is indeed our Man For All Seasons. Hopefully, one day school administrators will be free to strip all children bare-ass naked each and every morning, perhaps during the Pledge of Alliance and the Prayers to God, so that parents can rest assured that pills of any sort will be kept out of class, not to speak of the weapons of mass destruction that could easily make their way through our nation's school doors. Is it too much to suggest that with the Republican Party in such a moral wasteland with the activities of Messrs Ensign and Sanford, that its leaders look to Justice Thomas to lead them back to the promised land in 2012? More on Supreme Court
 
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Tuning In to Tuning Out: Taste and Habituation Top
Say it's cold outside and you get your winter coat out of storage. You put it on and feel surprised by the weight of it. But after just a few minutes of wearing it, you stop noticing the sensation of the pressure on your skin. This is called habituation, a situation in which we get used to and stop noticing certain reoccurring sensations. Habituation is also known as neural adaptation because it is adaptive to conserve our attention span and not waste it on information that has no survival value. As such, habituation also affects eating. This is particularly the case with foods that we eat all the time: no matter how flavorful and stimulating the food is, our minds stop noticing its flavor. It is ironic because the process of habituation over time takes the fun out of our favorite foods. The way it works is that when we know we like the flavor of a particular food, we understandably try to eat it more often. But the more we eat a particular food, the less we actually notice its flavor. In addition to this long-term effect, habituation affects our mindfulness in the short-term as well. As mindful as first bites might be, we tend to lose interest in what we are eating with each subsequent bite. If habituation is a mind-thief, then we want to practice catching it red-handed whenever it tries to sneak our attention away from eating. To counter habituation, practice the following. Try a new flavor of yogurt. Note the habituation, i.e. how your mind begins to tune out the flavor. Pause and re-focus on the food: look at it, smell it, taste it, meditate on the flavor. Get into a habit of noticing habituation. Tune in to the process of tuning out. Pavel Somov, Ph.D., author of "Eating the Moment: 141 Mindful Practices to Overcome Overeating One Meal at a Time" (New Harbinger, 2008) www.eatingthemoment.com
 
Jeana Lee Tahnk: Getting Over My Fear Of Pink Top
It has probably taken me about two years, just about how long my daughter has been on this Earth, to get used to the color pink. Having never been a 'girly girl,' I'm just not particularly fond of the color. At least prior to her arrival, I always had the choice to avoid it, but after my inner circle of friends all got married and started having girl babies, shopping for newborn outfits became an exercise in pink futility. I was at the mercy of this decidedly girly color, but still refused to give in. When it came to the birth of my own daughter, the overabundance of all things pink made me realize that I had to face my aversion head on, otherwise, she would have nothing to wear. My husband and I didn't find out the sex of either of our kids (our first is a boy) and I remember while pregnant for the second time, being excited at the prospect of a girl, but also scared of the uncertainty of raising one. As a mom, I only knew all things 'boy' and had no idea what to expect from the opposite sex. Yes, I know I am female, but there's a difference between being one and raising one. My husband was thrilled at the possibility of having a girl and envisioned that ultimate father-daughter moment in life of walking her down the aisle, but I wasn't so sure. This uncertainty primarily stemmed from the fact that my friends with daughters are constantly regaling me with stories about how their little girls insist on wearing their pink Cinderella dresses to the grocery store, express an interest in make-up and change outfits multiple times a day. When my niece was three, she was a quintessential girly girl at the time and had to be wearing at least one pink item of clothing at all times. Even at that ripe age, she would often exclaim, "You're annoying me. I need alone time!" if someone was bothering her and storm off. It just seemed so precocious compared to my son, who at a similar age, couldn't get enough of being around others and was perfectly content in his Spiderman briefs and little else. The drama of the little girls I had been around and heard about worried me -- it just seemed like a lot to deal with day-in and day-out. It wasn't so much a dislike for the color pink, but the fact that it represented this level of high maintenance behavior that I wasn't sure how to handle. I was fearful of having a daughter that I couldn't relate to. One who, unlike me, would prefer dolls to sports. One who would beg me to let her wear a tiara to school and make everyone call her 'princess.' One who at the age of 15, would embroil me in the fiery mother-daughter battles that I so often hear about. Maybe I am naive to think that those slam-the-door fights would be more likely to come from my daughter than from my son, but I know from first-hand experience that the female species tend to have a higher flair for drama. I have often heard more seasoned parents comment that boys are harder under the age of 10, girls after 10. One friend in particular, who has two girls, was telling me about the difficulties in raising this sex and said, "Two words: Teenage Girl," while shuddering, as if he had a bad case of the flu. It was these collective thoughts that compounded my fear of pink. And when my daughter was born, she made her presence in the world known from the minute she emerged. She was a fussy newborn, flat-out refused the bottle regardless of how hungry she was, and possessed a cry that nearly broke the sound barrier. It's amazing how something so little can have such a big personality. We knew we had a little fireball on our hands. Two years later, she is just as determined, stubborn, vocal and willful as she was when first born. She is what the parenting books refer to as a 'spirited' child and demonstrates some of the characteristics I initially had concerns about. It's too early to tell if she'll be a tiara and tutu girl, but every time she looks at me with those beautiful, big, dark brown eyes that are full of personality and zest, I realize that it doesn't matter. Each day that goes by and the more I get to learn about her, the more there is to love. Yes, she has certainly helped further cultivate my patience gene, but she also provides our family with unparalleled joy, laughter and fun. Having her has swept all of the ill-conceived uncertainties I had about raising a girl out the door just as readily as my dislike for anything pink. It doesn't matter if she ends up being that girly girl or not because she will be my little girly girl. So whether I'll have to wear a tiara for her princess-themed birthday party or a Cinderella costume for her re-creation of the movie, I'm there with bells and whistles on. And as for the color pink? It looks really good on her.
 
Rangel Faces Ethics Investigation, Again Top
WASHINGTON — The House ethics committee is investigating whether five Democratic lawmakers, including two committee chairmen, received improper gifts in travel to Caribbean conferences 2007 and 2008. The committee said it was investigating: Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee; Carolyn Kilpatrick of Michigan; Donald Payne of New Jersey; Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and Donna Christensen, the delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands. The annual Multinational Business Conference on Caribbean affairs is held in a different Caribbean country each year, and is officially sponsored by the Carib News Foundation. The Carib News is a small Caribbean newspaper based in New York City. The lawmakers under scrutiny said the Committee on Standards of Conduct _ the ethics committee's full name _ approved the travel in advance as required by House rules. Despite the permission to attend, there are indications that the committee is questioning whether corporations with lobbyists actually financed the lawmakers' transportation, hotels, meals and other expenses. House rules approved in 2007 severely limit lawmakers and their staffs from accepting the travel from an entity that employs or retains a registered lobbyist. That would explain why the committee is now scrutinizing the past two years of an event that was held for the 13th time in 2008. In preliminary interviews, investigators asked whether there were any other sponsors other than the Carib News Foundation, said I. Lanier Avant, chief of staff to Thompson. Lawmakers said it was their understanding that the Carib News Foundation alone paid their expenses. "Congressman Rangel complied with all of the ethics rules related to this trip, which was approved by the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct," said his spokesman, Emile Milne. "He looks forward to a speedy resolution of this matter and will have no further comment until the committee completes its work." Avant, Thompson's top aide, said "Neither chairman Thompson nor I have any knowledge of any corporation or private entity that funds the Caribbean News Foundation. "The only sponsor, the sole sponsor of the trip Chairman Thompson took was the Caribbean News Foundation, to his knowledge." Christensen said, "My staff and I are confident that we followed the required procedures in regards to travel to the conference. I look forward to a quick and just resolution to the matters at hand." Kilpatrick commented, "The organizing foundation submitted the required information to the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. The ... committee approved the trip. I subsequently submitted my request to travel and received written approval from the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct to attend the conference." Rangel already is under investigation by the committee on unrelated matters, including his use of official resources to contact donors, his lease arrangements for apartments and his compliance with financial disclosure requirements. A four-member subcommittee will conduct the investigation. The committee, without any other notification, posted an announcement of the investigation on its Internet site Wednesday night.
 
David Epstein: NAMUDNO and the Dilemma of Observational Equivalence Top
An old saying in politics goes that if there's a proposition that everyone agrees to, there must be something wrong with it. We usually think that courts are different, but the Supreme Court's recent ruling the in crucial NAMUDNO voting rights case may be the exception that proves the rule. Going into this case, the common wisdom was that there was no easy way out for the Court - it would have to rule that Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act -- which requires the South and other covered areas to preclear with the federal government changes in state or local law that might affect voting--was either still necessary and therefore constitutional, or not. The key to this dilemma was that the entity seeking relief from Section 5's preclearance provisions was a utility district (NAMUDNO stands for Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One) that didn't register voters and hence didn't fall under the commonly accepted definition of a "political subdivision" established in previous case law. Hence, the theory went, either the utility district should be exempt from Section 5's strictures since it had done nothing wrong (it wasn't even in existence until 1987, far after the VRA was first passed), or it would have to satisfy the same requirements as all other political entities in covered states because the VRA was still constitutional, even in its current amended form, even all these years later. But no! The Court found, in its infinite wisdom, that in fact the previous definition of "political subdivision" wasn't applicable after all. This allowed them to "get off at the first stop," otherwise known as "punting:" they simply ruled that NAMUDNO should have been allowed to try to bail out from under Section 5 coverage, contrary to the district court ruling, and so sent the case back on those terms without reaching any of the deeper constitutional questions. Observers view NAMUDNO as a bit of an opportunity missed; rather than have this case provide guidance for the next round of redistricting, the next round of redistricting will probably serve as input for the court's disposition of Section 5. So let's look ahead a bit and try to game out what influence the court's ruling, or lack thereof, should have on the redistrictings following the 2010 census. The crucial concept to begin with here is what political scientists call "observational equivalence," or the difficulty of proving a negative. Let me explain: the question is whether Section 5 is still necessary. Southern states point to the near lack of preclearance requests denied under Section 5 to argue that they have reformed. Civil rights groups say that the lack of discriminatory actions is proof that Section 5 works, and that to dismantle it is to risk returning to the bad old pre-VRA days. The problem is that a world in which Section 5 procedures are unnecessary is observationally equivalent to a world where they are necessary and completely effective. Either way, the result is no violations for the federal government to overturn. How does one escape from this dilemma? If the only observations we had came from the South, it would be difficult. But luckily we have the whole rest of the country to use as a control group - even better, since the question is whether the South (and other covered jurisdictions) should be singled out for preclearance requirements, a natural standard would be whether their electoral processes work to disadvantage minorities more than in the rest of the country. So one could imagine, for instance, a civil rights version of the 1988 Seattle-Vancouver handgun violence study: Seattle and Vancouver are very similar socio-economically, except that Seattle had fewer handgun restrictions than Vancouver. Sure enough, Seattle had far more gun deaths, both homicide and suicide, than did Vancouver. This type of study could be repeated with a number of Southern and non-Southern cities to test for rates of minority voting, office-holding, social benefits, and so on. Until then, though, Southern states will have incentives to be very cautious. It may be hard to prove a negative, so the South will be careful not to prove a positive; that is, to engage in behavior that will appear to be retrogressive or anti-minority. This is especially true with a Democratic administration vigilantly enforcing Section 5; Texas's mid-decade redistricting and Georgia's voter ID laws, both passed under a Republican administration, now seem a bit ill-advised, as they perpetuate the image of the South as restricting minorities' political influence through any means possible. So, probably not much will happen until the Court rules on a direct challenge to Section 5 (one which it cannot duck). Which means that it will be up to social scientists, in all likelihood, to change the terrain between NAMUDNO and the next big voting rights case.
 
Michael Jackson Videos: The Best Of The Best Top
As the world mourns the death of the Michael Jackson, it will not only be the songs by which we remember the King of Pop. Michael revolutionized the art of the music video -- using choreography, costume, dance, drama, celebrities and, of course, his own persona to create something visually spectacular to go with his music. We will always remember M.J.'s videos. Here are the best of the best ( click here to see HuffPost's Michael Jackson Life In Pictures slideshow and here for an M.J. style retrospective. ) : Rock with You (1979) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (1979) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Billie Jean (1983) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Beat It (1983) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Thriller (1984) Michael Jackson | MTV Music We Are the World (1985) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Bad (1987) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Man in the Mirror (1988) Michael Jackson | MTV Music The Way You Make Me Feel (1988) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Smooth Criminal (1988) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Black or White (1991) Michael Jackson | MTV Music Remember the Time (1992) Michael Jackson | MTV Music All videos from MTVMusic.com . More on Michael Jackson
 
Jim Lichtman: The Cheney Papers Top
It was announced that former Vice-President Dick Cheney has sold the rights to his memoir. "Mr. Cheney's memoir," the New York Times reported, "will focus on the past 40 years of his life, mostly in Washington." By way of unnamed sources, I was able to get a draft copy of the introduction to Past Perfect: The Truth, as I Lived It. Jim Lichtman writes and speaks on ethics to corporations, associations and schools. His commentaries can be read at www.ethicsstupid.com .
 
Sal Nunziato: Michael & Farrah: This Is Huge Top
Brian Williams just bumped Farrah Fawcett for Michael Jackson. Two American icons who meant so much to so many in so many surreal situations during their heyday, dead today; Farrah suffering terribly with cancer, Michael suffering terribly with everything. Brian Williams was appropriately shocked when he announced on the NBC Evening News that word had just come in of Michael Jackson's death "just as they had prepared a memorial for Farrah Fawcett." And with that, Fawcett's struggle was set aside. She became the follow-up story. For the first time, I really felt for Farrah. I like Brian Williams, but his sentiment seemed inappropriate even to someone as insensitive to any of this as I am. More on Michael Jackson
 
Specter Backs Public Health Care Option Top
Sen. Arlen Specter told a boisterous crowd of union activists today that he backs a public health insurance option as part of the health care overhaul Congress is debating. "I know you are very interested in the public component and I think Senator Schumer has the right idea about having a public component," Specter said at a rally held at the Capitol City Brewery near Union Station. The shift -- Specter opposed a public option only months ago -- comes as Specter faces a potential primary opponent next spring in U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak and as a new poll shows his favorability rating at a 17-year low. More on Arlen Specter
 
Michael Jackson's Life In Pictures (SLIDESHOW) Top
Michael Jackson died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 50 years old. See a Michael Jackson Style retrospective here. and watch great Michael Jackson video moments here . Below are just some photos from his long and storied career. PHOTOS: More on Michael Jackson
 
Michael Jackson's Style: A Slideshow Retrospective (PHOTOS) Top
Michael Jackson died after suffering cardiac arrest today. One thing the King of Pop was well-known for was his singular sense of style. From face masks before there was swine flu to glittery gloves, Jackson has forever left his stamp on fashion. See Michael Jackson videos here and see his life in pictures here . Here's a look back: More on Michael Jackson
 
David Wild: Forever Came Today: Ten Songs by Which to Remember Michael Jackson Top
Among many other things, Michael Jackson was one of the greatest singers who ever lived. Here are some songs to help us all remember those times. " Forever Came Today " - The Jackson 5 " I Want You Back " - The Jackson 5 " Ain't No Sunshine " - Michael Jackson " Heartbreak Hotel " - The Jacksons " Who's Lovin' You " - The Jackson 5 " She's Out of My Life " - Michael Jackson " Billie Jean " - Michael Jackson " Man in the Mirror " - Michael Jackson " Leave Me Alone " - Michael Jackson " Bless His Soul " - The Jacksons More on Michael Jackson
 

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