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...severe chest infection; in Vancouver, British Columbia. Nicknamed Long John because of his 2-m. height, Baldry recruited some of rock's future stars early in their careers to play in his backing bands, inspiring them with his dedication and music. (Elton John, born Reginald Dwight, even chose his surname in honor of Baldry.) He recorded more than 40 albums and also had a successful voiceover career, receiving a 1998 Grammy Award nomination for best spoken-word album for children with The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh...
...There were many reasons why my parents chose to come live in America. They believed that America would be a better place to raise children. My mother believed that if my sister and I were raised here, we would get better opportunities and have a chance at a better future. If I were thirteen and still living in Ecuador my life would probably be so much different than it is now. I wouldn't speak two languages, because I never would have learned English. I don't think I would be where I am now and I don't think...
...Chief Tom Numake was a tupunis once, until he set aside the powers he inherited from his father and chose the Bible 30 years ago. A former president of Vanuatu's National Council of Chiefs, he is among the most senior of Tanna's 300 chiefs in a community where such men still wield great power. It was his idea to make Tanna the only island to record its kastom law in writing, a feat it completed in 1995, and though he worships in a church, at the same time Numake lives very much as kastom dictates. He embodies...
...midtown Manhattan from my home in Brooklyn. I would have to pay $2 for the pleasure of waiting in a hot, sticky and smelly station. When a train finally came, the only car with seats would be the one where the air conditioning was broken. If I chose air conditioning over a seat, I knew I could expect a ride crammed in with fellow commuters. Then it would be a test to see just how many people could fit in a subway car, while the intercom crackled with the angry conductor telling people not to hold that doors because...
...11”—maybe six feet on a good day with inch-thick heels. He also runs the most professional, well-organized office I’ve ever seen. And, surprisingly, he’s always at the capitol. Apparently he chose to forgo his usual four daily hours of acting lessons when he was elected...