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...chaotic era, and William of Normandy, born around 1027, was the child of chaos. The illegitimate son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, he was known for most of his life as William the Bastard. Robert eventually recognized him, but only as he departed on a fatal pilgrimage to the Holy Land, leaving his seven-year-old a target for usurping barons. One by one, William's guardians and advisers were cut down. The boy escaped assassination only by a desperate flight to his mother's estate...
Nineteen ninety-nine was a big year for memorials. Humphrey Bogart, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire and Noel Coward, among others, would have been 100, Pushkin 200, and it was International Chopin Year, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's death. While some were celebrated reverentially, others received more bizarre treatments...
...jokes and poking fun to ensure that all had a good time. The program was obviously not chosen to display the works of Mozart, Dvorak and Debussy, but rather to draw all types of people together in search of the audience's enjoyment. As Lockhart remarked prior to playing Duke Ellington's jazzy rendition of the Nutcracker, "This is like nothing that you have ever heard before." And he was right. Ellington's take on the "Sugar Plum Fairy," renamed "Sugar-Rum Cherry," was a superbly performed combination of sultry saxophone, drums and strings that left the audience amazed...
...Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) News Office contains a staff of nine employees. Their office issues significantly more media releases than HMS does, issuing 43 in just October and November of this year...
...difference between HMS and medical schools at many other universities is that Harvard does not own or control its own hospital, unlike Duke, Chicago, or Stanford, for example. Instead, HMS faculty is affiliated with separate hospitals...