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...being readied for Yussef's arrival, Na'ama heard a hail of shots. Then her husband Ahmad screamed, "There's a young guy on the ground out there!" Na'ama rushed into the growing gloom of late afternoon. She recognized her son's denim jacket and jeans. He lay dead with a bullet in the back of his head, assassinated by an Israeli special unit that was guided to its target by Palestinian collaborators...
...Ravens talk smack with the best of 'em. And after their defense sent Super Bowl favorite Tennessee home unexpectedly early, it's clear they lay the smackdown with the best...
Harvard was prepared to counteract this strategy, though, as Clemente launched a long pass court immediately as Gellert sprinted down the court. The "touchdown" pass hit Gellert in stride and the junior guard converted the easy lay-up for a 57-53 lead...
...Burns, who, he has said, knew almost nothing about jazz until an offhand remark by a baseball player being interviewed for his previous series set him to thinking and got him listening. The rest of us can hear Ellington play The Single Petal of a Rose or Parker lay into Cherokee and be stirred by mute wonder. Burns doesn't have to go the mute route. He gets to extend and explore all those feelings, amplify them and put them all onto what may be the longest documentary PBS, or any other network, has ever shown. Lucky him. Lucky...
Marsalis particularly can lay down the jazz gospel with an evangelical fervor, and Burns gives him plenty of time at the pulpit. Probably too much. It would certainly have been better, for instance, to hear directly from some of the musicians who helped make the history besides Ellington or Basie rather than have Marsalis evoking times he never experienced, even if you can practically see the tongue of fire over his head when he speaks. But Jazz's seventh and finest episode, Dedicated to Chaos, which chronicles the beginnings of the bebop revolution as well as the coming of hard...