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While funds raised this year are greater than in the past, Clendenning noted that this must be placed in context...
...Harvard gets lots more coverage than other people in lots of areas," he writes in an e-mail, citing the prevalence with which Harvard's law and medical schools are quoted in the media. "I don't know how to decide what's fair in this context...but it is no doubt out of proportion to our real importance in Afro-American Studies as in other fields...
...never been a fan of judging people in their public lives for their private activities, and yet I cannot avoid being frustrated when I consider Reubens' fate in the context of those of other famous figures. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and actor Matthew Broderick each played an intimate and condemnable part in a causal chain that resulted in the death of a human being. Star of "Frasier" Kelsey Grammar has been arrested more times for drug charges than I care to count. None of these men has seen his career suffer...
...grew up in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills, where her parents kept her safely aloof from the show-biz scene. But her dad liked to read his scripts aloud at the dinner table and discuss his shows with the family. "It was more in the context of Dad's work," she says, "not the television business...
What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers' murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham's talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he's probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...