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...harder varieties of building stone, and an absent-minded magician performs a couple of genuine miracles, transforming wine into water and raising a man from the dead. The show under the big top is even more spectacular. It offers a unicorn that pops balloons with its horn, a sphinx that asks riddles, a Walpurgisnacht revel attended by witches and presided over by Satan himself and, for the jaded, the sacrifice of a beautiful virgin...
Barry Bingham Jr., 40, wanted to be the world's greatest French-horn player. Lacking the talent, he turned to his family's two newspapers-the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times-and burnished their reputations as two of the finest instruments of journalism in the Midwest. Though he has extended the papers' liberal editorial positions, Harvard-educated Editor-Publisher Bingham has left the day-to-day news operation alone, and was one of the first publishers to hire full-time ombudsmen to monitor both reporting and advertising. To avoid conflicts of interest, Bingham and other...
...gift horse in the mouth. Sly's music is well enough known, but until you've seen him in person you can't begin to imagine how good he is. The man invented magnetism. Jazz enthusiasts should take special note of Byrd, playing with his Blackbyrds. Byrd, the best horn man this side of Miles, has created a style all his own that's definitely worth catching. This is the first in a series of open air Sunday concerts being produced for the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts this summer, and if they're all this good the better...
Most of the Asiatic folk medicines sold in San Francisco's Chinatown are harmless. Sliced deer horn and powdered tiger penis, which believers in mystical medicine take to increase virility, are unlikely to hurt anything but the buyer's pocketbook. Neither are any of the 58 listed ingredients of another Chinatown favorite for aches and pains: ginseng rejuvenating pills, which are made in Hong Kong and contain such exotica as male mouse droppings, silkworm, rhinoceros horn, amber, turtle shell and myrrh. But this ancient Oriental panacea also contains an unlisted substance: the powerful Western painkiller phenylbutazone, a drug...
...There is no question that Tulane has an excellent team," Horn said. "But we expect to finish as least as high as our ranking...