Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decades later, Roberts, 25, finds himself with an album that has climbed to the top of the Billboard jazz chart. The Truth Is Spoken Here is a dexterous and loving homage, "a tribute," Roberts says, "to the artists who were the masters of the form." There are two Ellington compositions, In a Mellow Tone and a supernal rendition of Single Petal of a Rose, and a version of Thelonious Monk's classic Blue Monk that Roberts brings off with such light witchery that the song sounds reborn. Truth (which also boasts five Roberts originals) has all the well-studied funk...
Students at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) grouped together this spring to form the May Fourth Foundation, which attempted to raise money to buy word processors and fax machines to send back to students in China. And students from the Boston area founded the China Information Center with the aim of gathering and spreading information about the prodemocracy movement...
What sounds like a fictional thriller about a globe-trotting takeover artist is the real-life adventure of T. Boone Pickens, the Amarillo oilman and corporate raider. Pickens was in prime form last week as he challenged corporate officers at the annual meeting of Koito Manufacturing, a Tokyo-based automotive-lighting maker in which he controls a 20% share. "Do you treat all owners this way? Or is it just American shareholders?" Pickens asked, grilling the nervous Japanese board members...
Opponents retort that the states are selling not dreams but delusions. As early as 1776 the economist Adam Smith complained in The Wealth of Nations that "in the state lotteries, the tickets are really not worth the price." Today, in one popular form of lottery, a bettor picks six out of 54 numbers; the odds of getting the right six are 1 in 12.9 million...
After nine days of trying to form a coalition to end the parliamentary stalemate that followed Greece's elections on June 18, both hospitalized caretaker Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and conservative leader Constantine Mitsotakis dropped their insistence on being appointed head of the new government. At that, Communist Party chief Harilaos Florakis, leader of the Alliance of the Left and Progress, which holds the balance of power between the two rivals, announced that he would support a three-month government with Mitsotakis' New Democracy Party...