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...mostly avoids pastiche. The musicians don't try to impersonate their great historical counterparts, like Count Basie, Lester Young, Oran ("Hot Lips") Page and Mary Lou Williams, though in the film some correspondences are suggested. The spirit of the Kansas City scene is what they evoke, while remaining idiosyncratically and often exuberantly themselves...
...hours later, that hypothesis gained weight with word that an anonymous informant had warned the French consulate in Oran, Algeria, that the plane was "a flying bomb that will explode over Paris." From accounts of passengers released in Algiers, the French had already learned that there was dynamite on board; demolition experts would subsequently confirm that the explosives were placed in such a manner as to rip the plane apart if triggered...
...sifted for bomb clues, no such effort was made in Gander. Yet there was good reason to take seriously the Islamic Jihad's boast that it had blown up the Arrow Air jet. Telephone calls claiming responsibility for the crash were immediately received by both the U.S. consulate in Oran, Algeria, and Reuters news agency in Beirut. The Beirut caller even knew that the plane had been delayed for five hours in Cologne, and explained that was why it blew up over Canada instead of over the U.S. He said the Shi'ite Muslim extremist group planted a bomb...
...Oran said he had used "poor judgment" in making his offer. But he added that he hoped the incident had highlighted some problems with graduate students' financial support. "Clearly this was done out of need, not greed," he said...
...Oran said that he has spoken with many other teaching fellows concerned with salaries and sectioning. "Not all I talked to agreed to my approach, but no one disagreed with the need for a complete overhaul of the graduate financial system," he said...