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...when there was no ongoing civil war, no uprising, no massacres. The situation was quite different in Bosnia and Kosovo: our troops ended years of bloodshed and prevented many more people from being killed, even though the conflict was not a direct threat to American interests. Laura Chiu Palo Alto...
DIED. BENNY CARTER, 95, versatile jazz arranger, songwriter and bandleader regarded as one of the three modern masters of the alto sax (with Johnny Hodges and Charlie Parker); in Los Angeles. Idolized by peers for his clean, lilting, meticulous style, he was less famous in the U.S. than fellow bandleaders Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller--all of whom flocked to him for arrangements. The author of such hits as Only Trust Your Heart and the novelty tune Cow Cow Boogie, Carter turned his focus to Hollywood in the early 1940s, arranging and composing for films like...
...February 2003, Palo Alto, Ca. Incident: A reportedly HIV- and hepatitis- infected man brought a knife into a courtroom and slashed his own throat, splashing blood on security officers Security: Metal detectors were in place; following the incident they were recalibrated and retested...
...state with political reform and all these innovative ideas--then we fall on our face," says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto. "That's pretty embarrassing." Nobody is more embarrassed than Davis, who has seen his state taken for billions by energy speculators and threatened with being downgraded to junk-bond status by Wall Street. He might argue that none of that was his fault. But California is also the land of no-fault divorces. --With reporting by Matthew Cooper/Washington and Sean Scully/Los Angeles
...They still have to figure out exactly what their fellowship program is going to look like,” says Doug McAdam, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) in Palo Alto, Calif...