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...right. In 1975 he and those teens and even preteens formed the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. It not only became a path out of the ranchos, it engendered a network of more than 100 similar youth orchestras around Venezuela that has come to be known simply as El Sistema (The System). It has served some half a million kids since the 1970s and is undoubtedly one of the most successful music-education projects of its kind in the world, emulated today as far away as Scotland. It has also produced its own international superstar: conductor Gustavo Dudamel...
...working in an amusement park. Apparently most of those who wanted a reverberation of their Superbad vibe stayed home and watched star Seth Rogen, who ubiquitously promoted his next-week's movie, Observe and Report, on Letterman, The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live and quite possibly the Home Shopping Network...
...Michigan, just south of downtown. An 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium is to be built in Washington Park, which is tucked between a middle-income neighborhood of rowhouses and a rather bleak stretch of Chicago's South Side. Officials here also will play up Chicago's extensive public transportation network, although there is reason to be skeptical about whether its train system - which is aging, prone to delays and frequently dirty - can be significantly improved in time for the Games. And being the adopted home of the leader of the free world doesn't hurt either: President Obama has long...
...tribute also mentioned the many comical comments made by President George H.W. Bush and late-night talk-show hosts like Johnny Carson on his bow tie and not-just-a-pretty-face appearances on network news. The 3˝-page dispatch was written by Irving himself a few months before he died because, a son said, he didn't want any mistakes. It was also Irving's final sly tribute to his unique image in a medium increasingly defined by sameness...
...afternoon. “We also managed to avoid the peanut recall.” The Market in the Square is one of the few places still serving pistachios—in its gelato—in the absence of any notices from the Massachusetts Health and Homelands Alert Network. Employees at C’est Bon Convenience were unaware of the Setton recall. Students agreed with the safety consideration taken but wondered if it was necessary. “I haven’t seen pistachios on the menu, but there’s no reason to completely remove...