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...guest of honor arrives, groups of schoolgirls, including a unit clad in the black face masks of suicide-bomber trainees, perform dances dedicated to Saddam's "pulse of life." Then an interminable line of marchers files through, maybe 10,000 strong, singing "Happy year to you, President Saddam Hussein, who brought victory to us." As a group of fist-waving farmers tramps past, one of its members, Abdullah, offers, "We volunteered to come to show how much we love our President...
...when Lester Young's parents had separated and he was living with his mother, Young's father Willis, a teacher of music who toured with his own company, abducted the pre-pubescent boy in his mother's absence and took him on the road with him to perform in his shows. Lester Young wouldn't see his mother again for years. Does Daniels discuss this parental kidnapping, which clearly had a traumatic effect on the child's life, at any length? He merely employs the euphemism that the father "assumed charge of" Lester and his two siblings, and lets...
...exceptions to every rule, it seems that those more willing to accept the risks of procrastination, the group I would label the more confident among us, tend to be the guys, and the students who take more time with their work, and have less faith in their ability to perform under pressure, tend to be the girls...
...people. Another official requested he make an album about the nation. He agreed again, but said he wanted to write the songs: he completed eight, one dedicated to each of Burma's major ethnic groups. These are the pragmatic choices of a father with a son who wants to perform some day and a daughter who wants to go to medical school...
...study for next week’s final, many students would have preferred to spend the night unwinding at a concert. A week ago, that seemed likely—Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 announced that Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 were going to perform this evening at the Bright Hockey Center for a crowd of over 3,000 people...