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...Beam and Burns shared the stage with Duran, two drummers, a bongo player, two trumpets, a pedal steel guitar player, among others. After some initial mixing problems, these diverse elements blended together perfectly.Good music this varied rarely comes in one package. That it did on this night was a gift to all present, young and old, scenester and stockbrocker alike...
...said Fee. “I mean, I guess we had to get disqualified, after the police and the ambulance showed up at Second Baptist and everything. But I still think we were the best, and we deserved to win. We deserved those gift certificates, way more than the Astonia paper did.” Fee does feel that, for some, the experience was a good thing...
...This gift will make it possible to add strength in important disciplines such as the history of science and new areas of study, such as Islamic Inner-Asian, Southeast Asian, or South Asian studies, to complement our expertise in other geographic areas,” she said...
...more information emerges about the possible uses of the $20 million gift, some students and faculty have expressed concerns about the potential direction and tone of the studies paid for by the grant...
...College needs to act judiciously when it comes to recruiting for these positions in order to ensure that the professors selected will act under the auspices of true scholarly excellence and academic standards,” she said. “We sincerely hope, however, that acceptance of this gift does not signal that the University will feel compelled to hire someone whose political beliefs reflect those of Prince Alwaleed—namely the beliefs which impelled Rudy Giuliani to return a similar gift immediately after September 11th...