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Guitarist John Scofield is no stranger to the Cambridge jazz haven Regattabar, but when he returns to the Charles Hotel’s fabled lounge for a two-night stand, he will abandon his usual frantic and funky post-bop for the deep soul of Ray Charles’ songbook...
...seven minutes remaining after Keeley’s goal, the play became very frantic as the Buckeyes tried to even the score. Ohio State even replaced its goalie and sent her well beyond the 18-yard...
Early Wednesday morning, Aug. 31, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Blanco was frantic. Without any aides along, she and her husband had made an unannounced visit to the Superdome the night before and seen how desperate the situation there was becoming. The arena was teeming, its roof was leaking, and people had begun dying. "They were scared; they were upset. A lot of emotions were coming from them. Some were sick. They needed their diabetes medicine," the Governor told TIME in an interview. "What we were dealing with was a minute-by-minute life...
...spot price of brent crude hit $68 last Thursday?up 44% in the past 12 months?before easing slightly the following day. With the price of oil on the rise, its effects in Asia, on producers and consumers alike, are everywhere to be seen. Last week Beijing continued its frantic push to secure foreign energy reserves when China National Petroleum, a state-owned oil company, trumped an Indian government-controlled firm with a winning $4.2 billion bid for PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian-owned firm with vast oil and gas reserves in the former Soviet republic. China certainly needs the go juice...
...some time after the death of my father," the author admits, "I realized that I had not truly known him, or his tradition." Halter began to sift through the evidence of World War II, then ransacked ancient volumes, diaries and letters, scouring Europe and the Middle East in a frantic attempt to recover the past: "After six years, I found that the story of my people fills a great library. I have simply added one more book." But what a book: 80 generations of the descendants of one Abraham of Jerusalem are traced as they wander in exile across...