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Ultimately, Radano chose to study Anthony Braxton's career, not to present another jazz biography but to employ his life and work as a lens for observing the confusion and fragmentation of post-World War II American work, an endeavor that Radano is still best known for, Shelemay says...
DIED. JIMMY WITHERSPOON, 74, smoky-voiced singer whose career both rode and propelled the post-World War II transition of jazz blues into rhythm and blues; in Los Angeles. His hits included Ain't Nobody's Business and No Rollin' Blues...
However, a word of caution: a center devoted solely to ethnic and cultural organizations runs the danger of self-segregation and its inevitable counterpart--marginalization. One of the hall-marks of the post-World War II Harvard community has been the commitment to a shared collective culture comprised of myriad ethnicities and cultural backgrounds that the diverse student body represents. The creation of a multicultural student center could potentially undermine that shared experience by separating certain ethnicities and exacerbating divisions. We expect the panel to address these dangers. We need to ensure that a multicultural student center would be able...
...more of what they earn, opting not to increase dividends but to reinvest in operations or buy stock on the open market. This year, for example, blue-chip companies will report record high earnings but pay out a record low portion of those earnings as dividends (37%, vs. a post-World War II average of 52%).That's O.K., so long as reinvesting and buying back shares have their intended effect of pushing the stock higher. Tax issues aside, a stock that carries a meager 2% dividend yield but goes up 10% is every bit as good as a stock...
Forbes warned that without active leadership, the country might not take advantage of the favorable economic conditions existing today and might replicate the isolationist tendencies that marked much of the post-World...