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...Dylan, as did Martin Scorsese, director of last year's Dylan documentary No Direction Home, who acknowledged that he was ignorant of the singer's folk period and only caught on when Bobby D. went electric. By then, Dylan was already nearing the end of his artistic prime - a five-year stretch from 1961 to '66, when he revolutionized first folk, then rock, infusing his music with astringent, haunting imagery that fully justified critic Richard Goldstein's 1969 designation of Dylan as "the major poet of his generation...
...acquaintance that his conversations were being bugged by police in an ongoing probe into the network providing insider tips to Cosa Nostra's boss of bosses, Bernardo Provenzano. Cuffaro denies any wrongdoing or Mafia ties, and has refused calls by opponents to forego his run for a second five-year term. During an interview at his storefront Palermo headquarters - with some 25 aides and supporters crammed into his office to look on - Cuffaro brushed off suggestions that he should pay closer attention to the company he keeps: "If I have the chance to shake the hand of every Sicilian, even...
...year old agronomist and former president is better known for being Haiti's only democratically elected head of state to complete his five-year term rather than for anything specific he accomplished while in office. But he has won high marks from even his strongest critics for his pro-active approach to this second term. Conscious of the short honeymoon period he will be granted to show signs of real change, he has traveled abroad in search of aid and investment. And at home he has held frank conversations with members of Haiti's fractured population, trying to win support...
...don’t know what my standing is,” said one anonymous non-tenured faculty member interviewed for the 1954 report. “I’ve seen enough with what happens to people when they’re up on the five-year up-or-out to be quite disenchanted with the lower hierarchy around here....I feel uprooted....I feel transient...I have no special reason to stay [at Harvard...
...policy.C.D. “Dick” Spangler Jr., the entrepreneur and donor who chaired the capital campaign, said that Light “will preserve [the school’s] strengths.”With today’s announcement, Summers has appointed seven major deans during his five-year tenure—more than either of his two immediate predecessors did in their first half-decades. Summers said at the press conference that he had discussed Light’s appointment with the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing body?...