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Crouch set to work on Marsalis' jazz education, lending him records, taking him to clubs and engaging him in all-night gab sessions. He also introduced the young trumpeter to writer Albert Murray, whose 1976 book, Stomping the Blues, was a seminal work on African-American music. Murray, now 74, took Marsalis to museums and bookstores and got him reading "everything from Malraux and Thomas Mann to the Odyssey and the Iliad." In particular, he filled him in on the life and works of Duke Ellington, whom Murray considers the "quintessential American composer...
...Washington's balancing act produced a compromise resolution in the Security Council. After two all-night sessions of wrangling, the 15 members agreed unanimously to a British suggestion to marry the U.S.-drafted text with a watered-down version of a proposal made by Yemen on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization and backed by the seven other nonaligned Council members. The Yemeni faction had wanted the resolution to blast only Israel but, faced with the threat of a U.S. veto, the group relented in the end. The approved draft "expresses alarm" at the violence in general, thus indirectly criticizing...
...want all-night service," said Evan B. Rauch '91, last year's council secretary. "For the weekend, it's just convenience. But at nighttime, we're concerned that someone might be raped on their way back to the Quad...
When a gun battle broke out three weeks ago over casino gambling on the vast Mohawk Indian reservation on the New York-Quebec border, journalist Doug George, 35, became part of his own story. He picked up an AR-15 assault-style rifle and took part in an all-night shoot-out against pro-gambling forces. George, editor of two newspapers, the Akwesasne Notes and Indian Times, later wrote a gripping story about the battle, warning, "Unless we have permanent peace here, we're going to resort to terrorist methods...
...presidents are elected on the basis of their work for the review that year by all of the senior editors except the outgoing president, in an all-day, all-night process that most involved in yesterday's selection called grueling...