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...lighter note, Byrne addressed the concern of one member of the audience who asked about installing lights at the city's Wrigley Field. She said, "It was during my administration that we passed the ordinance banning the lights...
concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...
Hatton has a lighter outlook on the mishaps. "It is a festive atmosphere, but the racing is pretty intense. There's not a lot of laughter while you're rowing, but there's a lot afterwards...
Ozment said the new program is consistent with the report's suggestions. The mentorship stipends are higher than regular teaching stipends and would therefore allow participating graduate students to carry lighter teaching loads, he said...
DIED. Jo Jones, 73, innovative jazz drummer known as "the man who plays like the wind" for his new lighter, looser rhythms, dynamic shadings, adroit accents and inventive ad libs, who buoyed the Count Basie band from 1935 to '48, toured with such greats as Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson and led his own small combos, which often included other Basie alumni; of pneumonia; in New York City. He was often confused with "Philly" Joe Jones, 62, drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet in the 1950s and an innovator in the transition from the swing era to the "cool" jazz...