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...helped found a jazz program for the fledgling New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, a part-time public high school for students pursuing artistic careers. During his 12 years there, the elder Marsalis turned NOCCA into a fertile breeding ground for future jazz stars. Like a Renaissance master turning out a whole school of fine painters, he trained a virtual Who's Who of the younger generation: Harry Connick Jr., Terence Blanchard, Marlon Jordan, trumpeter Nicholas Payton, saxman Donald Harrison and flutist Kent Jordan, to name a few. But the most remarkable crop of Marsalis pupils...
...over the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia is not assuaged by the heritage of Operation Desert Shield's commander, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. The general's father, also named H. Norman, won fame for investigating the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but some Iranians remember him for another accomplishment: the elder Schwarzkopf, with bags of cash and the blessings of CIA Director Allen Dulles, helped organize the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh that led to the ascendancy of the Shah...
...name Season, Ray says, was chosen by her father, Seah Ray. The elder Ray had originally anticipated a son, and planned to dub him "Seah's son"--which was contracted into season when Ray was born, she says...
...time covered in the novel -- from the 1988 Christmas season to September 1989 -- he turns 56 and feels even older. His former job of running his wife Janice's inherited Toyota dealership has been given, by Janice, to their son Nelson, whom Rabbit still does not much like. The elder Angstroms winter in a Florida condo and spend the summers back home in southeastern Pennsylvania. Rabbit is restless, watching too much TV and packing in junk food; he now carries well over 230 lbs. on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. During a rare period of exertion in Florida...
...ANCIENT times, Cato the Elder ended each and every one of his speeches before the Roman Senate with the words "Cartago delenda est"--"Carthage must be destroyed." And the city-state across the Mediterranean--Rome's largest commercial rival--eventually was annihilated in the course of the Punic Wars...