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Sommers described Expos as the “model and envy of other writing programs.” Indeed, Duke once tried to lure her away to Durham and Princeton’s director, Kerry Walk, is a former Expos instructor and Sommers prot?...
...than I've ever seen them," says Lance Hill, executive director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University, an organization founded in 1993 with the mission to counter prejudice and improve race relations. Hill, who is white, led a grass-roots campaign to defeat David Duke, the former Klansman who made it into a runoff in Louisiana's 1991 gubernatorial race; racial tensions in the aftermath of Katrina, Hill says, are even more stark than those that surfaced during that watershed event...
...During theBig Band era, drummers unobtrusively maintained a song's rhythm. As a founding father of the revolutionary genre of bebop, visionary bandleader Max Roach made percussion a star player. He backed Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker as a teenager, and on seminal recordings ranging from Parker's Ko-Ko to Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, he created rich, complex, melodic sounds and drove rhythms disturbed by loud bass-drum beats, sudden silences and offbeat riffing. After his hugely successful quintet dissolved in 1956, following the death of his friend and band co-founder, trumpeter Clifford Brown...
...share program, Yellowstone Club World, that gives members access, via a fleet of three private jets, to nine sites around the world, including St. Andrews. Membership starts at $3 million. The town's existing North American--owned luxury hotels--Kohler Co.'s Old Course Hotel, which owns the nearby Duke's Course, and the Fairmont St. Andrews--are both undergoing major renovations with the same market in mind...
From crucial tracking evidence in the Scott Peterson murder trial to exculpatory call records in the Duke alleged rape case, cell phones have emerged as an important resource for both criminal investigators and defense lawyers. Now a small group of international forensic code breakers is working to go beyond the obvious and familiar - the call logs and address books - and tap deeper into our phones, into a hidden gold mine of personal information. Their work is prompting kudos from crime busters while raising concern among civil libertarians...