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Though his plan to improve Turkey’s educational system is focused more on infrastructure—updating buildings and increasing the number of facilities for primary, elementary, and secondary schools—Yuksel said he’s using his own scholastic background as proof of his commitment to higher education...
...purpose" is the motto of many local Parrothead fan clubs. Do you have any new plans for helping your followers do more good in the world?-Julie Eliza, TALLAHASSEE, FLA.I think if I lead by example, that's the best thing. I come from a pretty environmental kind of background, but I've got toys [yachts, planes, etc.]. So you know, the obvious thing next is to try to green myself up first and lead by example. It's a hard one, but I'm working...
MANY JAZZ EXPERTS CREDIT Bill Barber as creator of the modern jazz tuba. While playing "cool" Big Band music for Claude Thornhill, Barber impressed pioneering arranger Gil Evans with his mastery of the tuba, a background staple of early jazz bands that had become practically obsolete by the '30s. Convinced the instrument could be a tonal force in its own right, Evans included the tuba in his innovative arrangements for a nine-piece band--a body of work, featuring Barber, that became Miles Davis' legendary 1957 Birth of the Cool album...
...used to be, getting stability or economic help," says the National Marriage Project's Whitehead. "Marriage has become this spiritualized thing, with labels like 'best friend' and 'soul mate'" Some sociologists say these lofty standards make sense at a time when the high divorce rate hisses in the background like Darth Vader. But others suggest the marriage pendulum has swung from the hollowly pragmatic to an unhealthy romantic ideal...
...Easing Tensions Re "How to avoid a new cold war" [June 18]: Whenever someone asks me to explain the murky goings-on in Eastern Europe, I say, Read Zbigniew Brzezinski. Zbig is nash, or "one of us," in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. He has the personal background and intelligence to see everything clearly, as well as the courage and ability to expound on it coherently. The West cannot afford to allow his advice to go unheeded. Ksenia Lena Maryniak, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, EDMONTON, CANADA