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...album opens with lead singer Julian Casablancas proclaiming of an ex, "I want to be forgotten/And I don't want to be reminded." Casablancas has a world-weariness that would ordinarily be suspicious in a 25-year-old. He is the son of model magnate John Casablancas, but a study of his DNA would probably reveal more of a family connection to Holden Caulfield. The lyrics on Room on Fire that stick with you--"You are young, darling/For now but not for long," "Kiss me now that I'm older"--smack of premature angst, but Casablancas sells it well...
DIED. PATRICK DALZEL-JOB, 90, British World War II hero who served with author Ian Fleming and was reputed to be the model for James Bond; in Plockton, Scotland. In an interview, he revealed that Fleming told him after the books had achieved some success that he was 007's inspiration. Even as other officers claimed credit for the character, the daring naval commander downplayed his contributions and stressed that unlike Bond, he loved one woman, his wife, his whole life...
...overpowering issue for inner-city parents: to get their kids a college education," Ross told me. "I was tired of theoretical policy junk; I wanted to do something that really mattered. It was clear that urban kids were not responding to the industrial-age assembly-line education model-and there were people around the country who had figured out how to educate kids in a more humane, customized...
...probably raised a couple hundred million over the next five years. We need $700 million for Africa and the Caribbean, and I think we'll get it. We could do other countries, but it would require more money. And other people not associated with me could follow the model...
...collaborative way of working has been a model for the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist program since the beginning,” said Tom Lee, who coordinates Learning from Performers. “The idea is to draw everyone’s ideas together to realize a performance...