Word: johnson
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...evolution of jazz education at Harvard. Tom Everett, director of bands at Harvard, was honored at various points in the concert for his 25-year-long dedication to the Jazz Band. Everett received, among other things, an engraved dish from the OFA, a letter from jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson affectionately describing him as being "from another planet" and heartfelt thanks and appreciation from band alumni...
According to Stephen P. Johnson, executive director for Government Affairs, there was an original NSF competition for super-computing centers 10 years ago, during which the existing four national centers were established, and automatically funded for 10 years...
...restrictions: the countries of Latin America save for Cuba were now democratic, their economies were rebounding, and the jets their air forces flew in many cases were 1950s vintage, went the spiel. "We treat the Latins like children when we say they can't have new planes," says Joel Johnson, the Aerospace Industries Association's international vice president, implying that to have fully adult relations with other countries requires supplying them with sophisticated armaments...
...specifications didn't necessarily mean the Administration would later approve their sale. But in the past, sales licenses have almost always followed if an American company won a bid overseas. "We have a different situation now than we did in the late '70s," says White House spokesman David Johnson. "We've got a region that has undergone a substantial transformation." Yet some things, like the lure of expensive new weapons, never seem to change...
Despite the unavoidable flaws in the play, the production somewhat redeems itself through some fine acting and creative set design. Johnson has mastered the art of the quivering upper lip and has a fitting look of fear and paranoia on his face for much of the play, as Kitty goads him on about his leg, which the neighbors' dogs have supposedly attacked. But Medvedovsky's Kitty is weaker overall: most of her acting is melodramatic and relies too much on loud, angry shouts juxtaposed with hushed, confiding whispers. Martijn Hostetler '00 provides some comic relief as Itsik, head...