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Both because of and despite such associations, Bacharach, 69, is currently enjoying greater popularity than at any other time since his heyday in the 1960s and early '70s, when, working against the rock grain, he was responsible for dozens of Top 40 hits, including surprisingly nuanced adult-oriented love songs for performers like Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield and, his greatest vessel of all, Dionne Warwick. The current renaissance--Bacharach's last big hit was 1985's That's What Friends Are For--began a few years ago, with the explosion of interest in so-called lounge music, especially in Britain...
After the 1993 death of his 19-year-old son Patrick in a grain-silo accident, Hayes set up a support group for families of workers killed on the job. He provides counseling on legal rights and helps cut through bureaucratic red tape. The project has so far aided 300 families in 40 states and, says Hayes, "has helped fill the hole that Patrick left...
...here, and indeed throughout Hutchinson, about what should be done: "Kill the damn things." But the men at Skaets disagree somewhat on tactics. Earle Smith, a "semiretired" carpet retailer, proposes opening the fairgrounds to hunters and charging "a dollar a dog." Bill Moran, a fully retired manager of a grain company, thinks they could be a fine addition to the menu at Skaets. And Don Collins Jr., who still has a few years before retirement, looks through the window at the cold rain and suggests that the offending rodents might make excellent earmuffs...
...savored by Elis, but many of the 10,000 men of Harvard took the news with a grain of salt, saying the magazine had tinkered with its evaluation system to sell more copies...
...classmates, I have been tempted to linger. Harvard is an idyllic world, blessed with stately architecture, brilliant mind, and quiet optimism. But then I think of California, and the familiar streets near my house, and the sun blinking off the ocean, and the grandeur of the Central Valley's grain fields, and everything else I love about that land out west. And I realize that what I thought was a coming home to Harvard was in fact an exploration: the kind T.S. Eliot '09 describes in his "Four Quartets" when he writes: "We shall not cease from exploration/And...