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...stands rather unremarkably in a field of tall grass, a few hundred yards beyond the high barbed-wire fence, past the NO TRESPASSING signs and across some towering cranes and rusted tracks. It reads: WELCOME TO FLINT, PLEASE BE CAREFUL. It is an uninspired sign featuring a cartoon CSX conductor--one of those corporate image-enhancing niceties that until a few weeks ago blurred into the desolate industrial landscape like so many slabs of sheet metal. For whom the sign's message is intended has always been unclear; CSX trains only carry freight, and it's too far away...
...afternoon of orations, Class Day speaker Quincy Jones--world-renowned music producer, arranger and conductor as well as today's recipient of an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Harvard--used his address to move his Tercentary Theatre audience, both emotionally and literally...
Quincy Jones, who will address the graduating class today, is a renowned producer, arranger, conductor and 77-time Grammy nominee who has worked with an astounding array of stars including Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson. Yet Jones owes his success not to his work with the top figures in his field, but to his ability to spot talent in the rough...
...Ohio native and an Oberlin College graduate, Duffy views his appointment with characteristic modesty. "Thanks to Goodgame, TIME's Washington bureau is the finest orchestra in the capital," he says. "Getting the chance to be its conductor is an honor and a treat." Managing editor Walter Isaacson is not so modest about the promotion. "Duffy is a true great," he says. "He's a great reporter, a great writer, a great worker, a great thinker and a great human being." Hiring him may be the best mistake we ever made...
DIED. HERBERT ZIPPER, 92, unconquerable Jewish conductor whose formation of a secret orchestra in a Nazi concentration camp inspired the acclaimed 1995 documentary Never Give Up; in Santa Monica, California. While interned at Dachau, Zipper led his fellow musicians on makeshift instruments--a defiance echoed in his co-composition of the resistance anthem Dachau Song...