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Hugh Hinton will be a long way from Minden, Louisiana, when he sits down to play Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto tonight before a packed Sanders Theater audience...
...Adams House junior, Hinton spent the first 14 years of his life in a relatively obscure pocket of Louisiana before coming north to pursue a career in music. After four years at boarding school in New Hampshire--years punctuated by weekend trips to Boston for piano lessons--Hinton made Boston a more permanent home three years ago when he came to Harvard to study music with Russell Sherman of the New England Conservatory...
Hinton attributes his recent success to teacher Russell Sherman, but he doesn't rule out Louisiana as a possible influence...
...weather experts point out that there are no records of back-to-back nationwide droughts. In Ohio and Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the snowpacks of the Rockies, the grim dryness seems at last to have been broken. But in the Missouri River basin and the Pacific Northwest and along parts of the East Coast, the debilitating moisture deficits remain...
David Duke claims to have abdicated the title of imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now he wants a new one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit...