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...sent a small army of agents to audit their books last month. One regional office in Maryland simply changed its front-door lock. A Chicago office kept Carey's agents waiting in the lobby, where the music was cranked up and the phones were switched off. Last week the rank and file handed Carey his worst embarrassment so far. By 3 to 1, the members rejected his call for a dues increase of 25%, or about $6.25 a month, to bail the union out of a financial crisis that deepened on Carey's watch...
Cambridge's quirky voting system--which askvoters to rank their preferences instead of votingfor one candidate--would trigger a complexprocedure to find a replacement if Walsh resigns...
Many Harvard groups concentrate on getting gigsoff campus, at clubs and bars. The Square'sofferings consist of The Black Rose and the Top ofthe Hong Kong; further out there are The MiddleEast, T. T. the Bear's, The Paradise and TheCauseway. One band, Circus of George (formerlyknown as Rank and File Pilot) has appearedoccasionally at Wellesley...
...sense rather than hear the rumble of a jet plane overhead. Her determination and natural talent, however, were enough to qualify her for London's Royal Academy of Music, where she graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...
Under heavy pressure from mainstream black politicians, Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, stripped aide Khalid Abdul Muhammad of his title and rank for making a speech last November that many critics labeled racist and anti-Semitic and that Farrakhan labeled "vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited." But Farrakhan also said he stood by "the truths" in the speech...