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Like many young jazz singers nowadays, Dobson, 26, is trying for a mellow pop-jazz groove à la Norah Jones. Her plangent, almost vibrato-free voice rides over a mélange of island rhythms, bossa nova and folky acoustics, mostly in new songs she has co-written. They go down as easily as frozen margaritas, never more beguilingly than when she slips in scat syllables like "dit-doo, die-yah-da-doo" in Four Leaf Clover, or simply "ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh" in Cold to Colder...
...string theorist on the payroll is considered a scientific backwater. The public, meanwhile, has been regaled for years with magazine articles breathlessly touting it as "the theory of everything." Brian Greene's 1999 book on the topic, The Elegant Universe, has sold more than a million copies, and his Nova series of the same name has captivated millions of TV viewers...
...second half of Schama's powerful book follows the former slaves in their wretched exile after the war, when thousands joined an exodus of white loyalists to Nova Scotia. Others shipped out to Africa to establish a struggling township in Sierra Leone. Although the African settlers suffered years of illness and near starvation, they were the first largely self-governing community of African Americans. If it wasn't quite "British freedom," it was still a taste of the liberty the U.S. would not offer blacks for many years to come...
...slight nasal inflection or dropping to a barely audible whisper. Her guitar style is reminiscent of the late folk-pop great Nick Drake, and her songs evoke dreamy landscapes that will sound familiar to Drake’s fans. She plays slowly and easily, occasionally drifting into the bossa nova territory of Joao Gilberto. She never attempts anything fancy, and she doesn’t need to; she just lets her voice gently carry the songs along. She experiments with vocal loops, and is usually successful in her attempts to integrate minimal electronic effects into her otherwise organic sound. Occasionally...
...Harvard students delving into the film industry. The novel will be released April 4. The last time a Harvard student, while still in attendance, was approached with a film deal was in the fall of 2002 when the autobiography of former Harvard student Elizabeth Murray commenced filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Murray’s book about her struggles as an adolescent living on the streets, entitled Breaking Waters, was picked up by Hyperion Press and quickly adapted into a Lifetime movie, which became the most watched broadcast in Lifetime’s history. And in 2000, Harvard student Brooke...