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...MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part hommage, part reinvention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of the premier jazz groups to one of America's greatest composers. The M.J.Q. pays the Duke the ultimate honor: it doesn't just respect him, it makes him swing...
...MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part homage, part re- invention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of the premier jazz groups to one of America's greatest composers. The MJQ pay the Duke the ultimate honor: they don't just respect him, they make him swing...
...city's 340,000 residents. "We collect roughly 100,000 tons of garbage a year and convert it back into valuable materials," says a smiling Kenichi Usui, a city waste-management official. He has good reason to be boastful. Japan, which is fast becoming the world's premier industrial power, is also in the forefront of effective waste management...
China's pragmatic leaders are taking steps to eliminate such surprises. The government announced last month that a welter of previously restricted "internal" regulations issued by the State Council, China's highest executive body, will henceforth be circulated publicly. "The publication of regulations signed by China's Premier will help people learn exactly what they are being asked to adjust to, follow or enforce," said Huang Shuhai, a deputy director of legislative affairs for the State Council. "Their legal rights and interests will also be made clearer...
...idea for a buddy movie: Capitalist and Communist Do Manhattan. In Moscow on the Hudson, the Sequel, Gorbachev confers on Trump, who already lives like royalty, the head-of-state status he has been seeking since he publicly implied in 1985 that his premier dealmaking skills were what the strategic arms reduction talks were missing. For his part, Gorbachev gets a view of capitalism run amuck: Trump owns one of the city's biggest apartments (a $10 million, 20,000-sq.-ft. triplex), a palatial country house (Marjorie Merriweather Post's 118-room villa, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach...