Word: jimming
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...Founded by Maestro Paul Freeman, the Chicago Sinfonietta - the most racially diverse orchestra in the country, according to a recent survey - has long struck a chord with fans of innovative classical music. "We've done some pretty wacky things," says executive director Jim Hirsch. "You haven't heard anything until you've heard thirty steel drums banging simultaneously with an orchestra." Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments. Two years ago, the Sinfonietta collaborated with alternative rock band Poi Dog Pondering in a "remix...
...presidential race that is bringing hopefuls including John McCain, Bill Frist, John Edwards and Evan Bayh to northeastern Iowa these days. They're pitching in to help candidates vying in one of the most hotly contested, crucial 2006 congressional races. That's because after 15 years in Congress, Republican Jim Nussle is giving up his seat representing Iowa's 1st district to run for governor, making this rare open seat a must-win if the Democrats have any real hope of regaining control of the House of Representatives...
...think we are in the early days of a new era in space that says the average person now can get access to space," says Jim Banke, vice president of the Space Foundation. "What you're seeing here is basically guys working in a quiet little hangar somewhere to put together this rocket and launch it without needing 10,000 people and the vice president of the U.S. to show up to make it happen...
Imagine a television show so beyond the pale of good taste that Pat Buchanan, the Bob Jones University Faculty of Arts, and even some of the more tolerant branches of the Ku Klux Klan would condemn it. You’ve just imagined “Survivor: Jim Crow South.” Described as a dark cross between “Gone with the Wind” and “Remember the Titans,” this innovative program would try to evoke the feel of the Old South through athletic challenges designed to bring out the conflicts...
...ordinary Chinese, I have a humble suggestion to the suffering French: Why use armed hunters to kill thousands of troublesome bullfrogs? It is not half as effective as whetting the appetite of the community and showing people how lucky they are to be living among so many exotic delicacies. Jim Hsia Shanghai