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MUSIC | Herbie Hancock Quartet...
Grammy and Academy Award winner Hancock is a highly acclaimed performer of acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B. A former child piano prodigy, Hancock now divides his time between performing and producing music, as well as maintaining his program to increase the spread of technology: the Rhythm of Life Foundation. Berklee Performance Center, 7 p.m., Tickets...
...Houston-born star, above center, with Spanish actor JORDI MOLLA, right. Quaid, with the aid of some happenin' muttonchops and the largest standing movie set in North America (50-plus acres), plays General Sam Houston in The Alamo, due out Christmas Day. Directed by fellow Texan John Lee Hancock, who teamed up with Quaid in 2002's The Rookie, this account of the Lone Star State's battle for independence from Mexico shares little with the 1960 John Wayne film of the same name. It depicts the Mexicans' view of events and the faults of heroes like Houston, forcing Quaid...
...Nobel Laureates, I doubt even Kavulla himself would say that William R. Hewlett MIT SM ’36 (of Hewlett Packard Co.), Benjamin Netanyahu, MIT Class of 1975 (former Israeli Prime Minister), I.M. Pei, MIT Class of 1940 (architect of Boston’s John Hancock Tower among other things), and Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of MIT Classes 1958 and 1972 respectively, (better known as Click and Clack of NPR’s “Car Talk”) have kept their “blinders” focused on academics all their lives...
...official signing of the parchment copy on Aug. 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. "There must be no pulling different ways," he declared. "We must all hang together." According to the early American historian Jared Sparks, Franklin replied, "Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Their lives, as well as their sacred honor, had been put on the line...