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...octet performance led perfectly into the entrance of legendary Louisiana-born tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet. Jacquet proceeded to steal the show with his quirky stage antics and easy-going humor. Walking over to his alto saxophone after putting down his tenor, he turned to confide with the audience, "The little one gets mad when I pick up the big one!" Jacquet, who was the Kayden Artist in Residence in 1983 at Harvard, performed four tunes with the Band: Jacquet's own "Robbin's Nest," as well as "Body and Soul," "Flyin' Home" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street...
...addition, 40 percent of all children have also seen a dead body outside the context of a funeral home, according to a Louisiana study cited by Bamforth...
...neon to guide air traffic, brings a splash of Las Vegas and Miami Beach to a decaying stretch of New Orleans' elegant St. Charles Avenue, bit back 48 hours later with a two-page ad of his own. Copeland, who favors ostrich-skin cowboy boots and is known across Louisiana as a powerboat racer and founder of Popeyes spicy-fried-chicken chain, began his volley with "Dear Anne" and ended with "P.S.: See you in court. In the meantime, I'm putting a little extra garlic in the food at Straya, keeping a crucifix under my pillow and carrying...
Lott regards Clinton as part of a generation reared in a more "permissive" and "anti-Establishment" atmosphere. He groups Clinton in a class of such other young Democratic Governors as Ray Mabus of Mississippi and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, who "went off to school at places like Harvard and Yale and then came back to instruct their fellow Southerners in the errors of our ways...
Democratic Senator John Breaux of Louisiana, who is also close to both Lott and Clinton, considers the majority leader a compassionate man but one who does not believe government needs to compensate for past injustices. "Trent thinks that if he could make it, anybody can" and that Washington should provide the kind of help he got through such programs as college loans instead of fostering welfare dependency, Breaux says. "Bill Clinton emphasizes that even if you started out working class, you still have to realize that some people have a harder time working their way up than you did because...