Word: patriarchate
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DIED. RUBéN GONZÁLEZ, 84, pianist and patriarch of Cuba's music scene who found late-life stardom after his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. González, who was rediscovered by guitarist Ry Cooder, was initially nervous about playing on the album: he suffered from arthritis and didn't have a piano (his was ruined by termites). But he welcomed the attention and happily began performing again. "If I can't take a piano with me to heaven," he said...
...group, led by Patriarch Alexy II, was scheduled to arrive in New York last night. Lucie McNeil, a spokesperson for University President Lawrence H. Summers, said that she will meet with the monks on Summers’ behalf, and the Russian delegation will also speak with Harvard College officials...
...Army regards this as a security issue," says the Agriculture Department official, who just returned from Iraq and is worried that the country's farmers might take to the streets. "It does not want the violence to spill over into the countryside." Haj Abdul Wahab al-Bunnia, 82, patriarch of a family-run agribusiness empire in Iraq that farms 25,000 acres and employs 6,000 people, has the same concerns. "We need to get people off the city streets and back onto the farms," he says. "With incentives, we can do this. But if there is no farm work...
...subcommittee investigating racketeering in the Teamsters, noticed Lowe's vivid and intimate pictures of the famous hearings and invited the photographer into the tumultuous households of Hickory Hill and Hyannis Port. His pictures of the family of Bobby and Ethel given to Old Joe for his birthday wowed the patriarch, who called Lowe and said he wanted him to do the same for his other son, Jack...
...other end of the park, retirees Joyce and Pat Busbee haven't had breakfast yet, but the 70-year-old patriarch already has his Sony Vaio revved up, ready to research a new motor home to replace the couple's luxury 40-ft. Country Coach. "It's the best thing since sliced bread," jokes Joyce, referring to the wireless service, not her 12-ft. living room, full-size tub or double-door fridge. Nice amenities, but after two years on the road, they most cherish the spontaneous instant messages sent via the Internet from their 10-year-old granddaughter...