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...Arnold Levine, art director of Marsalis Music, and other artsy types who will discuss the aesthetics and production of CD cover art. Lecture Hall, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St. Free. 3. September 30, 12-6 p.m. Free. Mingle with hordes of cool cats at the Beantown Jazz Festival. The Omar Sosa Trio, Mark Tucker Quartet, and the Unwrapped All-Stars with Dennis Nelson are just a few of the fifteen acts that will perform on three outdoor stages. At press time, www.weather.com reported blue skies, so no excuses to not get moving and get cultured. To get there: Take...
...pact with local pro-Taliban militants in the tribal province of Waziristan - long considered a likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda leaders - NATO leaders were as furious as Karzai. Reports that the deal had been brokered in part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually considered issuing an ultimatum to Musharraf to either close down...
...perplexing poster hangs in the office of Omar Minaya, general manager of the New York Mets, the newly minted champions of the National League's Eastern Division. It's a promo for A Bronx Tale, a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro about a boy who gets mixed up with the Mob. Why is the word Bronx--as in Bronx Bombers, as in New York Yankees, as in Evil Empire--displayed prominently at the Yanks' crosstown rival? It turns out that Minaya, who grew up a fly ball from Shea Stadium in Queens rooting for the Mets, loves the movie...
...spite of a Security Council resolution approving a larger, tougher U.N. peacekeeping force, the government of Sudan refuses to allow Blue Helmets on its soil. When the Bush Administration sent its Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to persuade President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to admit the U.N. force, it was two days before he would even meet with her. Al-Bashir has a rather different plan for solving the problem: just before the Security Council vote, he launched a military offensive aimed at cleansing Darfur once and for all. The U.N. is warning...
...With Clav, you eventually have to just get used to all the noise you hear—construction, talking, music, the Lampoon, and street noise, so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem,” said Omar M. Abdelsamad...