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Other recipients of this year's award include: Brooke Astor, the New York philanthropist; Justin Dart, Jr., considered the father of the Americans with Disabilities Act; Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers; and Wilma Mankiller, who became the first women to be elected as the leader of an American Indian tribe...
...fact, I would venture to say that in Paula Corbin Jones' place a Cabot or an Astor might do one jeans plug. So it would be a relief to all of us if we could just agree that class had nothing to do with this...
...with that knee-crushing idiot who keeps his seat back for the entire six-hour flight to Buenos Aires. World Christmas (Metro Blue) features artists from a number of time zones, including Cape Verdean vocalist Cesaria Evora. There's also a Celtic Christmas II (Windham Hill); A Brasilian Christmas (Astor Place); and Festival of Light (Six Degrees), a CD for Hanukkah with the Dutch band Flairck. Even the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos have a seasonal CD: Christmas Chants (Jade). Still, some of the best holiday music is all-American--Jazz for Joy (Verve), with Abbey Lincoln...
...allowed to contend were planted as part of a frame-up: blood belatedly gathered from a gate at Nicole Brown Simpson's condominium, bloody socks found in Simpson's bedroom and blood gathered from the Ford Bronco two weeks after the murders. Still, says Los Angeles civil attorney Sandy Astor, "this ruling was expected, even without Fuhrman's plea. Nobody ever said that thin evidence is not admissible just because it's thin...
...Brooke Astor turns 94 this week. And what better present than to have a poem (four lines, rhyming couplets, iambic tetrameter) published for the first time in the New Yorker last week? The philanthropic nonagenarian told the New York Times that she has been writing verse since she was six. The New Yorker is publishing only three of her works, so there's plenty of material left. Does Modern Maturity take poetry...