Word: baton
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Jefferson's queenship will include a trip to Baton Rouge next week, where she will attend a reception in the governor's mansion, she said. She will then travel to Washington with the parade's princesses, who are elected by district in Louisiana...
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WHERE DID MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH GO wrong? The retiring music director of Washington's National Symphony was one of America's cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich...
...almost become evangelical when I tell my students, `Go on to graduate school. Consider becoming scholars and working at a university where you will teach, write, publish and have some impact on society'," said William E. Moore, vice chancellor for academic affairs at Southern University at Baton Rouge...
Surprisingly, Whitley's progressive approach has stirred no ripples in Baton Rouge. "We always say about Angola that if it's not in the press for something bad, things must be going pretty well," says Ralph Miller, former chairman of the state house's criminal-justice committee. Still, admirers want < it known that Whitley is no liberal. "In this state, that's like being accused of being a child molester," says District Court Judge Robert Downing...