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...others derisively or jealously suggest that the culture of Harvard basketball is changing; he should own it.The Times article includes skeptical putdowns from Yale coach James Jones and Brown skipper Craig Robinson. Both have to be threatened by the idea of competing with a charismatic, nationally famous coach like Amaker who has the full backing of the world’s most resourceful academy, which recently unveiled a sparkling new financial aid initiative to boot. Pending admissions results, with Ben-Eze, Kenyi, and Wright, Amaker has already put together a better recruiting class than either Jones or Robinson has ever...
Juilliard Graduate, Sax player, two-time Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and composer--Teo Macero was all of the above and famous for none of it. But in the early 1960s, after taking a job at Columbia Records, he became one of the era's most celebrated producers. Best known for his long, occasionally combative collaboration with Miles Davis--whom Macero likened to a spouse--Macero had unusual latitude to cut and shape Davis' improvisations, often co-creating pieces. Among the albums he oversaw: Davis' Bitches Brew, In a Silent Way and the monumentally influential Kind of Blue, as well as such...
...something very special to it as well. He’s just a very fun and likeable guy.” Wright’s determination to let the characters speak for themselves will undoubtedly leave the show open to a healthy amount of interpretation. In a play most famous for the post-show dialogue it sparks, this doesn’t trouble Wright in the least. “[The playwright, Shanley,] has talked before about how we’re living in an age of certainty and how people have this steadfast position that they hold...
...Unlike other famous apparitions of Mary, such as the one at Lourdes, the Fatima message was focused less on holiness than on geopolitics. And in 1952, Lucia sent an even more dramatic "third secret" - rumored among millions of "fatimists" to predict a schism in church or even the world's end - which she sent to Rome in 1952, where three successive popes remained either indifferent, or ambivalent enough to keep it under wraps...
...American euphoria over the concert was the fact that it came less than two weeks after Kim's 66th birthday - a day when the national cult of personality goes into overdrive. No one should be surprised if the regime's message to its populace is, Look, even a famous American orchestra plays for the Dear Leader...