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...President of Yale University, Richard C. Levin, flew down to Dallas yesterday to appease a dismayed Lee M. Bass. The wealthy Texas investor (and Yale graduate) had donated $20 million back in 1991. Levin must now explain to Bass--three years later--why half of his money has yet to be allocated...
Given this commitment to Western Civilization, President Levin explained that the proposed plan to implement Bass's gift was rejected for the "practical, logistical and nonpolitical reason that it made inefficient use of our resources." With the plethora of courses already available, Levin reasons, new courses and faculty hires specifically for the study of Western Civilization would just be over-kill...
...album in three years, is steeped in an even deeper shade of Blue. The hallmarks of Mitchell's signature sound are abundantly evident -- the crystalline arrangements, the unorthodox guitar tunings, the fluid, bittersweet melodies. Her voice, which has taken on a smoky flavor, can still soar through clouds of bass and piano. There are flashes of wry humor -- as in her depiction of a comically inept Lothario in Yvette in English...
...benefit the art, but the TV age has brought a new way to become an opera star fast: get on the box. In 1986 mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli jump- started a huge international career by singing an aria on an Italian variety show. She was 19. Now Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, 29, is taking the opera world by storm. His career, which is only four years old, began when he placed second in the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, an event in which both the heats and the finals are televised. Videocassettes flew around Europe, and the phone...
Known by his street name, Beavis, the 16-year-old escaped from a youth center in El Monte, California, in June with a 15-year-old girl who calls herself Rainbow. A former ninth-grader at Antelope Valley High School who was just learning to play electric bass guitar, he was put into the center by his mother, he says, because she and he didn't get along -- at all. Though he misses his three-year-old brother, Beavis vows never to return home. "It's too awful there," he says. Instead he'll live on the streets until...