Word: julians
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Many Asian Americans come from an educated elite in their native countries. Their children seem to do especially well. Julian Stanley, a Johns Hopkins psychology professor, studied 292 preteen high scorers on the math portion of the SAT, nearly a quarter of them Asian Americans. He found that 71% of the Asian-Americans' fathers and 21% of their mothers had a doctorate or a medical degree, vs. 39% of the fathers and 10% of the mothers of the non-Asians...
When former Georgia State Senator Julian Bond was accused by his estranged wife last March of using cocaine, the ensuing drama soon added Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young to its cast. The mayor, Bond's friend and fellow Democrat, was suspected of obstructing justice by cautioning Alice Bond not to spread rumors...
...should never be so concerned about anything that we stop caring for each other," Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young declared last week. That pastoral attitude, says Young, was the reason for his March 25 telephone call to the estranged wife of his friend and political colleague Julian Bond, cautioning her about allegations of cocaine use she was making to the police. Those charges implicated Bond, Young and other prominent Atlantans. (She later retracted the charges, which were denied by both Young and Bond.) A grand jury took up the case...
...arranging and reworking music for other instruments. "The composer has to work through me," he said. Indefatigable, he practiced five hours a day and even in his 90s was still playing up to 60 concerts a year around the world. He was also a tireless teacher whose students included Julian Bream. This, in fact, may prove to be his most enduring legacy; once scorned by academia, classical-guitar study is now offered by some 1,600 schools of music in the U.S. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Composer Igor Stravinsky once observed, "but it sounds...
...mayor of Atlanta bent on stopping an investigation? That apparently was what a federal grand jury in Atlanta wanted to know last week when it summoned Andrew Young to explain his March 25 telephone conversation with Alice Bond, the estranged wife of former Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. The call was placed six days after she told Atlanta police that her husband had been a regular user of cocaine and that she had once seen the mayor use coke...