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Harvard Group for New Music--presents "Babbitt's None But the Lonely Flute, "Mel Powell's Madrigals, Andrew Rindfleish's Piano Trio, Alexander Kalogeras' Hieron, and Deborah Spragg's Face to Face. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Free...
...legislators on bribery charges; allegations that Arizona's two Senators were involved in the Keating Five influence-peddling scandal; and the conviction of a prominent savings and loan chief on 17 counts of securities fraud. "It seems we have an unlucky star over our heads," said former Governor Bruce Babbitt, the state's cleanest political light. "Now we'd all like it to pass over the horizon...
...would want to make a judgement as to whether the public association of the donor to the school would be detrimental in terms of its reputation, ethics and its effect on other potential donors," said Samuel F. Babbitt, senior vice-president at Brown University and director of the school's current capital campaign...
...development of the Colorado; it planned and engineered the % big building projects, all funded by congressional appropriations. Critics say the bureau has become an anachronism, no longer able to manage the Colorado and its myriad problems. "They're a bunch of dam builders," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, "and there aren't any dams to build. They have been unable to adjust to the new reality...
...others. Farmers and city dwellers cannot possibly both be satisfied. Environmentalists and Native Americans, allies on many issues, split over the Colorado: the tribes want more development on their reservations, the environmentalists less. Water conservation that is good for California turns out to be bad for Mexico. Babbitt calls the development of the Colorado an "extraordinary achievement" but argues that the very success of this plan spawned the myth "that there is more water over the next hill. But there is no more water over the next hill...