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...Judging by the number of Army, Air Force and Marine T shirts from bases across Europe, American Bowl weekend would have been a good time for the Soviets to attack. In the stands beside their British cousins, the Americans offered football seminars throughout the evening. Said Rugby Player Ian Blakey, of Billingham: "I'm sitting behind some Cowboy fans, and they're conducting classes. You need help with all this if you've only seen it on the telly...
...extortion and murder. While many smiled over the acronym's reference to Rico, the archetypal gangster played by Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar, federal prosecutors were slow to use the new legislation. But "since 1980 it's been used aggressively," says the delighted principal drafter, G. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame law professor...
...including consumer advocates and plaintiffs' attorneys, reply that even legitimate businesses can behave in illegitimate ways and that government cannot police every violation. RICO, they add, gives the victims of such practices a needed and powerful means of redress. Existing ) fraud laws or securities regulations were not enough, argues Blakey. "Under RICO, the perpetrator knows, 'If I'm caught, I don't just have to give back what I took. I give back three times what I took. It's suddenly economically unwise for me to engage in fraud...
...Wynton, who made his first public appearance the following year, blowing the Marine Hymn during a recital at the Xavier Junior School of Music. Over the next decade, following a few years of preadolescent musical indifference, teen-age funkifying, intense jazz practitioning and a little professional seasoning with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Wynton Marsalis found himself with a major-label record contract. His debut album has sold about 125,000 copies-a surprisingly strong showing for a jazz record-and pulled down a brace of awards while earning Marsalis a reputation as the hottest young horn in town...
...toward jazz, his training is markedly classical. "Not very much is similar between jazz and classical," he says, "but both are about the elevation of the audience. Both have spirituality. You learn the jazz vocabulary by listening to records and watching other musicians. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey. Jazz is the first Western music in which the audience participates in the creative process. With classical, you have to really learn the music, learn the instrument. You have to be as faithful to it as possible." On Dec. 4, Marsalis will test his fidelity in concert at New York City...