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...DIED. ELVIN JONES, 76, dynamic drummer whose ferocious polyrhythms shattered conceptions of the percussionist's role in jazz and helped push bandmate John Coltrane to new creative heights; in New York City. Jones, who also played with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, spent the past three decades touring the world with his Elvin Jones Jazz Machine...
...family recalled, do some good. A "tower guy," he figured he could earn as much as $20,000 a month repairing antennas in Iraq, a job that sometimes involved climbing hundreds of feet of latticework in 120° heat, according to business consultant and fellow free-lancer Andy Duke, who says he drank some beers with Berg the night before he disappeared...
Illinois has beaten current top-20 teams nine times, including a 4-0 drubbing of No. 3 UCLA, a 4-2 defeat of No. 9 Stanford and 6-1 wins over No. 6 Duke and No. 8 Florida...
Lehmann stressed that Harvard’s infractions were minimal compared to recent occurrences at the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, and Johns Hopkins, where severe procedural carelessness had pushed the National Institute of Health to actually freeze research...
DIED. ANDREW ROBERT BUXTON CAVENDISH, 84, the elegant and modest 11th Duke of Devonshire, who held on to his ancestors' grand lifestyle by turning the 16th century Chatsworth estate owned by his family for 14 generations into one of Britain's most popular tourist attractions; in Derbyshire, England. Thought to be wealthier than the Queen, Sir Andrew paid off $20 million in inheritance taxes by selling tens of thousands of acres of land and art from his large collection to set up a trust that financed his mansion's maintenance...