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CYRUS CHESTNUT GENUINE CHESTNUT What makes Chestnut the best jazz pianist of his generation is a willingness to abandon notes and to play space. He rescues Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Bread's truly horrible AM-radio hit If from years of accumulated treacle by tinkling out the barest hint of melody, confidently letting each note float around until it resolves itself in your head. He's equally adept at spelling his minimalism with funk on the original Ellen's Song, and closes with a solo version of Lord, I Give Myself...
There are those who would have you believe that the integration of housing will induce moral decline, inspiring students to gleefully abandon their moral scruples and their virginities. This is based on the premise that people room in order to have sex with each other. But in the real world, students room for friendship and company. They, unlike conservatives, agree to not make sex an issue...
High profile disappointments—like “Munich”—and slumping ticket sales are bound to send studio executives searching for unconventional movie concepts, but they are unlikely to entirely abandon the business of blockbuster film-making...
...European Union (EU), the “sick man” of the contemporary global economy, should in 2006 abandon the outdated orthodoxy that has come to define its growth strategy and reclaim its economic sovereignty. It should do so by trading dogmatism for the realistic use of its powerful monetary and fiscal instruments. In brief, the EU should become more American. Conversely, the U.S. would be far better off if it focused on a disciplined economic policy in order to curb the abysmal “twin” deficits in its fiscal and trade accounts...
...most Americans do not want but that are nonetheless critical for maintaining our way of life. The labor of undocumented workers has even become crucial in rebuilding areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Most importantly, immigrants are human beings and are thus entitled to basic human rights. But let us abandon these philosophical arguments and look at the economic facts. Although immigrants send important remittances to Mexico, this figure adds up to roughly 0.3 percent of America’s GDP (which includes remittances to all of Latin America). This is unlikely to have a significant impact on the American economy...