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...panel included moderator David Nyhan ’62 and Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy Management Mary Jo Bane, as well as former Boston mayor and current U.S. ambassador to the Vatican Ray Flynn and Rev. Christopher Coyne, director of worship for the archdiocese...
Jones grew up in Dallas listening to her mother's Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles records. (She won't discuss the circumstances of her parents' relationship, but she emphasizes that Shankar had a very small role in her upbringing; at one point, Jones and Shankar went 10 years without contact.) She discovered singing while attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Erykah Badu and trumpeter Roy Hargrove are also alums) and pursued jazz piano at the University of North Texas. After her sophomore year, she took a summer sublet in New York City, where...
DIED. HARLAN HOWARD, 74, country-music composer whose songs were recorded by Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings and Patty Loveless; of undisclosed causes; in Nashville, Tenn. Howard wrote more than 100 Top 10 hits, including Cline's signature I Fall to Pieces...
...Perhaps because they are so remote, the reefs are relatively unvisited; divers are more likely to meet a manta ray than another human. Almost all the scuba shops are based in Port Blair, and while there are a number of interesting dive sites in the vicinity, the capital is hardly the most scenic part of the islands. A better option is the Andaman Scuba Club (and amanscubaclub.com ) on Havelock Island?a 4-hr. ferry ride north of Port Blair. This operation, run by a pair of Swiss enthusiasts, is still adding to its regular sites as divers explore the neighboring...
...been obscured by a blizzard of Bush words and deeds that strike many Europeans as tone-deaf or worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners at Camp X-Ray; his repudiation of the Kyoto climate accords in favor of voluntary compliance by U.S. industry; a refusal to lean on Israel, or even to engage deeply in the peace process, for six months as violence has soared; and his decision last week to set tariffs on steel imports, which violate trade...