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...said at Sunday’s meeting. But students who attended the meeting said that this structure would too closely mirror that of the CHL, and proposed making the task force a more informal link between undergraduates and administrators. Associate Dean of the College for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson wrote in an e-mail Monday that the task force will help the CHL get more student input and “make the CHL meetings more meaningful.” “The way student advocacy works now is that the UC, SAC and CHL reps make...
DIED. P.W. Botha, 90, apartheid- era South African President whose rigid defense of racial separation overshadowed his secret 1989 talks with jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela; in Wilderness, South Africa. Known as the "Old Crocodile" for his fearsome temper, Botha made some reforms, giving Asians and mixed-race citizens--but not blacks--a limited voice in government. But he also oversaw the detention of tens of thousands of antiapartheid activists. Despite global pressure, he would not free Mandela, who was finally released in 1990, a year after F.W. de Klerk replaced Botha. And he refused to appear before the postapartheid...
SONGBIRD WILLIE NELSON With seven original scattershot albums since 2003--including one of just reggae covers--Nelson formally entered the doodling phase of his career. A collaboration with fellow profligate Ryan Adams (a mere five albums in three years) would seem like the exact wrong move, but as a producer, Adams brings along his excellent backing band, the Cardinals, and a shrewd instinct for songs that keep Willie focused. The two originals and nine covers--including Gram Parsons' $1000 Wedding and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah--are so good that Nelson resists the temptation to oversell them and returns...
...hawkish South African politician who led the country during the height of the antiapartheid struggle in the 1980s; at his home in Wilderness, South Africa. As Prime Minister and then President, Botha made reforms at the edges of the apartheid system but refused to release political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela or countenance majority black rule. In 1986, with violence spiraling, he declared a state of emergency. Three years later he was forced to step down by his own party. In a recent interview, Botha said he had no regrets about the way he led the country...
...Harris’ musical experiments aren’t always unqualified successes, he can be forgiven for his overextension; the pressure to innovate surely weighs heavily on his shoulders. No era of jazz ever includes more than a few great vibraphonists, and now, with musicians like Steve Nelson doing their best playing as sidemen, and with greats like Bobby Hutcherson decades past their most important work, Harris has taken up the mantle of jazz’s highest-profile practitioner of the instrument and all of the expectation that comes with...