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...came to New York he was playing in all the Big Bands. He was the one who told us about a saxophone player in Kansas City named Charlie Parker or a bass player in Minneapolis named Oscar Pettiford." Dizzy brought them all together to play at a fabled Harlem joint called Minton's, where, after the regular sessions, strange scrambled rhythms and impossible harmonies would float toward the dawn. It was, indeed...
...basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...
...university is endangering the safety of Harlem residents by exposing them to environmental and biomedical waste. It is thinking about profits before lives," she said...
Wilson said he questions whether Lee andShabazz truly represent the Harlem community'sinterests...
...Harlem Community Board 12 voted in favor ofthe project by a margin of three to one, andseveral city and community newspapers haveendorsed the project because of the economicstimulus it will provide the depressed area andthe biomedical advances the research facilitypromises...