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...Some performers are criticized as being "too hip for the room" or "playing to the band." Lenny was plenty hip, maybe excessively so; his performances were crash courses in bop argot and Yiddish. And he did love cracking up the musicians, since he thought of himself as their kinsman: an improv artist with words. But he gained a large following, even though his material, even in his early prime, was deemed too controversial for TV. (Remember, there were only three networks and some independent stations. And this was the 50s. Only Steve Allen, an early and loyal fan, booked Lenny...
...absence of the frank seminars, teach-ins, and study groups that characterize discussions of other timely issues at Harvard.And don’t expect these honest discussions to come from Harvard’s new Islamic Studies program, funded by a $20 million grant from a Saudi prince whose kinsman recalled the kingdom’s ambassador to Denmark over those dozen cartoons and whose government, we are now learning, hosted a conference where a worldwide, violent response to the cartoons was contrived.For the time being, I await those glossy Institute of Politics posters which...
...He’s extremely passionate about college basketball,” Kinsman says as he describes Wagoner’s decision to send a representative to Albuquerque, N.M., to try to sway the NCAA. “He served as executive chairman and literally led the corporate initiative. I think the NCAA was extremely impressed by his manner and presentation. He just does a fabulous...
...Bradford Kinsman, athletic director of the University of Detroit Mercy and another member of the committee that pushed for the NCAA tournament, says Wagoner displays unwavering dedication to the community...
...Qaeda's Agent 007: suave, well educated, a trilingual globe-trotter who mixed easily in other cultures, who engaged women and intrigue with savoir faire and deadly expertise. Except that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed isn't fiction. He's all too real. Consider his resume of terror. He presumably helped kinsman Ramzi Yousef bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. He hatched plots, never carried out, to bring down U.S. airliners over the Pacific and to assassinate President Clinton and the Pope. He may well have masterminded--officials aren't sure yet--the deadly assault on the U.S.S. Cole off Yemen...