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When he was appointed a hearing officer for the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board, Demakis moved closer to the political scene. At the same time, he began to work actively in the community, chairing the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay as well as the Ward Five Democratic Committee...
...users have mentally broken down on ecstasy, unprepared for its powerful psychological effects. A schoolteacher in the Bay Area who had taken ecstasy in the past and loved it says she took it again a year ago and began to recall, in horrible detail, an episode of sexual abuse. She became severely depressed for three months and had to seek psychiatric treatment. She will never take ecstasy again...
...leaders of neo-traditionalism, the stylistic fortress that has long held at bay the barbarians of commercial jazz, have lately found themselves in a quandary. The very walls that protect the purity of their music have come to restrict its reach. Carefully, saxophonist Redman is trying to nudge open the gates a bit--not to commercial dreck, but to a less doctrinaire approach. Only an artist with Redman's extravagant formal skills could pull off such a gambit. The cuts jump from the strangely fitting eastern drone of Leap of Faith to the modern bounce of Stoic Revolutions, all woven...
...Gonzalez affair seems almost like a soap opera [NATION, May 8]. It has drama, sadness and is sometimes comical. But one needs to go back to the beginning to understand the plot: the differences between the U.S. and Cuba. The aborted invasion of Cuba by the U.S. at the Bay of Pigs is long past, and perhaps it is now time for both countries to sort out their problems and move forward. It will take some strong leadership on both sides. But it is possible that the Elian affair could act as the catalyst for a new alliance--the Elian...
...period before getting back his principal. Now, however, the yield on 10-year Treasuries is around 6.5%; on two-year Treasuries, about 6.8%. When the "yield curve" inverts like this, bond traders are betting that short-term rates are high enough to cool the economy and keep inflation at bay. We're already seeing signs of slowing in retail sales and housing...