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Haden, who still plays with Coleman occasionally, continues to have a wide compass for inspiration. His music, especially the Liberation Music Orchestra material, can turn toughly political; he was once arrested in Portugal for dedicating one of his songs to black liberation movements in Africa. He has founded a department of jazz studies at the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles, where he lives with his second wife Ruth Cameron. He has four children; all are musicians who have in their father a man who has already left a profound mark on contemporary jazz...
...Vietnam War, which Bush promised we had "kicked" at the end of the Gulf War. Yet while we may be able to fix our mistakes at home, history may one day ask us why we spend so much time worrying about our own house when we still have no compass to guide our foreign policy. Our children may ask why, for example, we never asked Bush about the genocide of the Kurds in Iraq...
...dumbfounded by Ndokanda's photographic memory for terrain, it is soon his turn to be impressed. Using a compass and a battery-operated geopositioning system, we look for the two clearings. The system works by using signals sent from satellites and can pinpoint a position within 100 m. By taking a reading in the middle of a swamp near the camp (trees block the satellite signals), we are able to determine the way to the clearings...
...nation where the Ten Commandments are ordered out of classrooms and where 14-year-old girls are given condoms and told to go practice `safe sex' has lost its moral compass," he says...
...grey paint on the plywood floor has been worn away where Felix stands. Ranges of bare wood reveal the compass of his days, in front of the edge trimmer, metal fast, heel sander, finishing machine...