Word: jaye
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...towns, those intrinsically hip places where collective shoe preference may run the narrow gamut from Birkenstocks to Doc Martens but ears are all wide open. The academic triangle of Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, boasts popular alternative bands like Superchunk, not to mention a label, Mammoth Records. Jay Faires, founder of Mammoth, set up shop in the area quite simply because ''there are a lot of 18- to 22-year-olds who don't have much to do, who smoke a lot of pot and who eventually pick up a guitar.'' Record executives are also looking at Halifax...
DIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 67, composer, playwright and lyricist of Broadway hit musicals, including Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon and Gigi, and author of the screenplay for An American in Paris; of lung cancer; in New York City. Lerner worked with Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein, but his greatest successes were produced during a tempestuous, 20-year collaboration with Frederick Loewe (Lerner wrote the book and lyrics, Loewe the music). The partnership broke up in the early 1960s, but last year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the two were jointly honored for their contributions to American...
...beef and 6,000 lbs. of seafood. Guests, who paid $1,325 to $2,670 for the trip, could experience the thrust and heave of great tectonic plates of nourishment at prebreakfast, breakfast, midmorning bouillon, lunch, tea, a five-course dinner and, of course, midnight buffet. Jay Johnson, 23, a well- and happily fed store owner from Durham, N.C., speared a chunk of king crab and admitted that anyplace else ''it would cost me a fortune to eat like this.'' Passengers on such cruise ships tend to be middle-aged or elderly. They have, perhaps, toured Europe's museums...
...this hypersensitivity comes, ironically--sorry!--as political comedy is surging: not just Jay Leno and David Letterman but now Stewart and Stephen Colbert, online satirists and news hosts like Keith Olbermann, who is as much comic as anchor...
...John "Jay" L. Ellison, secretary of the Administrative Board, the College's principal disciplinary body, said that he would not comment on the status of Pak's enrollment or any of the other students named in the investigation. Pak is no longer listed on the official College facebook or Harvard phonebook directory...