Word: jacks
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...eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned for the orchestra by planning and leading an HRO rehearsal. “[Collecting student feedback] was a very deliberate, thoughtful, and extensive process for hearing what students had to say about rehearsal...
...free port where import and export duties were scrapped and passing ships could cheaply purchase all their rigging, provisions, and bunker oil. As the industry grew, the figure of the ship chandler passed into Singapore's literary lore, appearing most memorably in Paul Theroux's 1973 novel Saint Jack, the title character of which is a sly but soft-hearted hustler who sells dreams of romance with female "escorts" along with his sundry goods...
...apparent at first, but the loss of Jack Kemp, who died on May 2 at 73, calls to mind the parallels he had with another political giant, Hubert Humphrey. As far as I knew, neither had a single political enemy. They may not have achieved the presidency, but each was enormously important in his respective party, in the institutions of government and to the political process. Both were examples of how party members should conduct themselves today...
...Jack's final service--his last play, to offer a football metaphor, which he loved to do--was to demonstrate what Reaganism (and, to be fair, Kempism, because Jack was critical to President Reagan's success) was really about: conservatism with a smile, conservatism of multiplication not division, optimism about the future, the best of the old applied to the new. Above all, conservatism appropriately constructed as befit the party of Lincoln...
...could have predicted that Jack and I would be running mates in 1996. We didn't always agree, we ran against each other in 1988, and I was never a total convert to some of his ideas. But we agreed on a 15% across-the-board tax cut and reduced federal spending as key components of our campaign. In the end, the power of ideas, enthusiasm about the future, passion for racial equality, positivity and inclusion brought us together. Jack never claimed his ideas were flawless, but he knew that our party, to become a majority, needed new ideas...