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...advanced musicians. AN OPPORTUNITY SUPREMEAs Everett’s group continued to add new members, he also started using his connections outside the University to encourage his students to understand jazz as a living art form. Over the years, Everett has brought such luminaries as Jerry Mulligan and Benny Carter to practice and perform with students. “This is Harvard University. You study with Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and Nobel Prize-winning chemists,” Everett says. “[Students] should be exposed to the best of American music.” The benefits for students...
...lyrics and sugary beats you crave, and it’s got that cool vocoder effect that T-Pain always uses. Now isn’t that swell? The video for “Lollipop,” the first single off long-awaited LP “Tha Carter III,” begins high over the city of Las Vegas. The camera quickly zooms in, bringing the viewer through the city’s skyline right into Lil’ Wayne’s hotel room, where he stands looking at himself in the mirror and making sure...
...born John Carter, in Evanston, Ill.; he took his stage name from his mother's and stepfather's surnames. At Northwestern University, he appeared in a student film of Peer Gynt, and by 1950 he had made his way to Hollywood. Director Cecil B. DeMille immediately saw the actor's appeal, casting him in The Greatest Show on Earth, then giving him the role of Moses in The Ten Commandments. At 32, Heston passed as the old patriarch and aced the movie's crucial scene: Moses holding his staff above his head, parting the waters...
...Following the “liberal consensus” of the postwar era that invaded Vietnam and ushered in the economic crisis of the 1970s, the movement that trumpeted economic freedom, individualism, and rational foreign policy made understandable electoral sense. Under Reagan, the Carter malaise was reversed, and economic policies were put in place that Clinton and the Bushes left untouched with great success. Communism fell without a missile fired, and foreign policy was managed without disastrous invasions; when Bush Sr. invaded Kuwait, he resisted the temptation to follow Saddam’s forces back to Baghdad, with his Defense...
...original version of this article noted that in 2000 "Al Gore drew fire when it was revealed that a key aide, Carter Eskew, had done work on a tobacco industry advertising campaign that was aimed at undermining the Clinton Administration's tobacco settlement deal." In fact, Eskew had done the work before he joined the campaign, at which time Gore insisted he leave his firm...