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...sucks," said Lester P. Lee Jr., campaign chair of the pro-rent control Save Our Communities Coalition (SOCC), which spearheaded the fight against Question 9. "It's a capitulation. People need more protection than that. They need time to adjust...
...more than 500,000 copies and won a Grammy as well as two naacp Image Awards, and other jazz-rap bands, like US 3, have followed in Planets' wake. Meanwhile, some of the most respected musicians in jazz -- from Harvard summa cum laude saxophonist Joshua Redman to veteran trumpeter Lester Bowie -- have recorded songs combining jazz with hip-hop. Both Miles Davis and Quincy Jones experimented with rap-jazz fusion in the '80s, but a decade later it is becoming a staple. How broad is its acceptance? Well, Digable Planets is featured on a compilation called Hip-Hop 'n' Jazz...
...Lester P. Lee Jr., campaign chair of the pro-rent control group Save Our Communities Coalition (SOCC), agreed...
...Lester P. Lee Jr., SOCC campaign chair, vowed that the fledgling group would stick together and wage a legislative and judicial...
...ultimate irony of this great harvest drama lies beyond the shores of the U.S. Lester Brown, head of the Worldwatch Institute, suggested earlier this year that unless there were dramatic changes in population growth and food supply, the world soon would not be able to feed itself. "Food security will replace military security as the principal concern of many nations over the next 40 years," he said. The American harvest miracle -- and even last week's announcement by the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines that a new, higher-yielding strain of rice would boost world production...