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...with a private teacher for another crack at lessons, but I know myself and my schedule well enough to imagine that teacher becoming my own personal Greek god of guilt. So I turn to that famous refuge of the half-assed hobbyist: the Learning Annex, New York City branch. I sign up for a three-hour, $39 course called "Instant Piano for Hopelessly Busy People." It's taught by Martin Moser, a sprightly ragtime fanatic. The course requires only that students be able to read music in the treble clef and be able to point to those notes...
...from New Hampshire to wonder if such corrupt practices reach into other states. While senators argued that errors in judgement are not good enough reasons to force someone to resign, a judge, especially a Supreme Court justice, should be held to a higher standard. Members of the judicial branch of government are entrusted to uphold the rights and principles of the people, and because of this, they are accountable on a far more philosophical level than the average American...
...business six years ago, using her home in Harlem as her calling card. The apartment is a study in opposites where an ornate daybed is offset by the clean lines of geometrically shaped ceramics. Bridges' first book, Furnishing Forward, is due out next year, and she hopes to branch out into television. Her multimedia ambitions have earned her comparisons to Martha Stewart, but Bridges points out one important distinction. "I respect her as a businesswoman," she says, "but I doubt anybody will ever see me shingling my own roof...
...Laurie Tennant that she would quit her job when she had kids. "Growing up, my friends dreamed of their weddings or of the families they would have," Tennant, 37, says. "I dreamed about my career." She loved her job as a director of human resources for the Northern California branch of a Big Six consulting company and went right back to work after her daughter Hannah was born in 1993. "I felt no pull from home when I was at work and no pull from work when I was at home. I felt perfectly balanced." Then she had her second...
...says the approach is like "a branch of roses"--one bud may grow quickly, and another slower...