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...also performed a high-spirited, melodious cover of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" finishing with a lusty cry of "Bob Marley!" After Gil's superb set, I wandered over to the Tenda Brasil to take in a performance by Luiz Melodia. He's something of a cult figure/ elder statesman in Brazilian music, effortlessly blending samba and the blues; imagine a middle-aged South American Robert Johnson and you've pretty much got it. He with two acoustic guitarists on either side. He started out with the song "Fadas" a graceful, toe-tapping tune that that skips along...
...hacks before Turano lit the lamp to make it 3-1. The Crimson upped the tempo in the final frame, desperately trying to penetrate the Elis' defensive core. Harvard put up twice as many shots on Lombard as the Bulldogs did on Jonas, but to no avail. The elder Moore almost brought Harvard within one with 1:20 to play in the game. Moore wrapped around the net and sent a pass out to the slot, but no one was in the slot to bang it home. "They were doing a good job of latching on to people and wearing...
...maintained by force. The book's editors suggest that the current leadership holds the same conviction. But China's economic openness--begun, ironically, by Deng in 1978--has surely created a challenge to the monopoly on power enjoyed for so long by so few. "Those goddamn bastards!" party elder Wang Zhen shouts at one point in the papers. "Who do they think they are, trampling on sacred ground like Tiananmen so long!? They're really asking for it! We should send the troops in right now to grab those counterrevolutionaries!" Wang died in 1993. One wonders what he would have...
Irwin Hentschel called a fellow street soldier, and it looks like Tammy will get another try at rehab. An old joke about the elder Bush's social policy went like this: A thousand points of light, batteries not included. Noel Irwin Hentschel comes with batteries. Are there 999 more...
...Funny that the Adams family (President John Adams and his son President John Quincy Adams, who was the grandfather of Henry) keeps popping up. George Bush the Elder, in a jocular dynastic mood, has taken to calling his son "Quincy," and over the weekend, the New York Times published a pre-inaugural ranch interview with W. in which the President-elect mentioned he was reading a biography of John Quincy Adams: "If [my father]'s going to refer to me as Quincy, I might as well find out what the fellow was all about...