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Henry ("Hank") Aaron holds the major league career home-run record (755) and works for the Atlanta Braves organization...
Matching writer to hero in this fifth installment of the TIME 100 was an intriguing game of free association. Some match-ups made immediate sense: "The American G.I.?" brought the response "Colin Powell." "Jackie Robinson?" "Hank Aaron, of course." Others triggered supporting epithets. "Andrei Sakharov?", for example, brought on "Fang Lizhi." Pause. "The Sakharov of China"--the press moniker attached to the dissident astrophysicist who sought refuge in the U.S. embassy after the violent crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations. Yes, of course...
Like him or not, Newman the lyricist is a refreshing irritant. And Newman the composer is a sweet seducer. His music is a lush amalgam of Americana (Stephen Foster and Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they...
...Essentially the numbers are bolstering our claims," said Aaron D. Bartley, a campaign organizer and first-year law school student. "There is an inordinate amount of casual labor going on. The fact that half of them are making less than $10 an hour says...
...College's list of previous Class Day speakers reads like a Who's Who of famous people. It includes renowned humanitarian Mother Theresa, broadcaster Walter Cronkite and home run king Hank Aaron...