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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...approaches a career in jazz with trepidation, it is mainly because he already knows how much fun working his way up the ranks while playing at various incarnations of Ida and Irving’s 50th Anniversary Party will be. Last year Danny got a gig through a friend to play at some convention having to do with malpractice. “I don’t know if they were for or against,” he says, but the conventioneers did commission three songs entitled Malpractice, Risk Management, and Loss Control...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: One Hip Cat | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...just something I would do for a couple of years--to help get things started, like Ms. magazine, the National Women's Political Caucus--and then I would go back to my real life. I was still imagining that my real life hadn't happened yet when my 50th birthday came along in 1984. My friends asked to make it into a gala benefit for Ms. magazine and the Ms. Foundation for Women. I thought, Why not? When I die, my funeral will be a benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Finally Real | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...always hires the Band because Harvard fight songs are a great way to help alumni recall how fond they were and still are of their college experiences. Playing for these alumni, I often wonder how my class will publicly express its fondness for this place at the 25th or 50th reunions. Will we even be able to? Are we truly happy with our Harvard experience, as challenging as it is? Or, in the midst of all our academic and extracurricular demands, do we sometimes forget to hold on to what’s truly special about Harvard?...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why I Love (the) Harvard (Band) | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...Jimmy, his identity was protected under patient-confidentiality rights. Given the grave nature of his disease, EWC had always assumed that Jimmy passed away soon after the radio broadcast.There was no reason to believe otherwise until 1998–just before the organization’s 50th-anniversary celebration–when Jimmy’s sister called the Dana Farber Center with the news that her brother was very much alive. He was a truck driver in northern Maine named Einar Gustasson...

Author: By Brian P. Quinn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Eliot Tradition: The Jimmy Fund's Friends From Across the Charles | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...average SAT score for home schoolers in 2000 was 1100, compared with 1019 for the general population. And a large study by University of Maryland education researcher Lawrence Rudner showed that the average home schooler scored in the 75th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills; the 50th percentile marked the national average. But not all home schoolers take standardized tests, and one suspects the better students are the ones volunteering to do so. It's also difficult to assess how a child who is home schooled would have done in a traditional school. Because of the paucity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Sweet School | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

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