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After Steven Purugganan broke the world record at last year's championship by up- and down-stacking six pyramids in just over six seconds, the 11-year-old from Longmeadow, Mass., garnered an endorsement deal from McDonald's. And when he clocked in at 5.93 sec. at a regional tournament in January, fellow stackers started sending him YouTube videos of their routines, asking for his advice. "I tell them to keep a light grip, that you need to practice like any other sport, working to get faster every single day," he says...
...After raising 10 children with wife Delores, gospel giant David Winans, 74, became known as "Pop." The pair managed four of their offspring as the Wynans and inspired two others, BeBe and CeCe, to start a duo. Married for 55 years, the couple also found time to record together...
...many times will you buy a record you love? The logical answer is once, since CDs and MP3s are all but indestructible, but logic has never had much to do with love or the record business. This year in particular, the industry is banking on the absence of logic. Scan a list of 2009's major releases and you'll discover almost as many reissues - repackaged classics with improved sound or added tracks - as originals. You may not be tempted by Lenny Kravitz's Let Love Rule 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition or Average White Band's re-pressed...
...relationship between record companies and reissue buyers has not historically been built on good faith. Anyone who owns one of the nine versions of the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, each with its own seductive "extra" features, knows it's a lot more like the relationship between Charlie Brown and Lucy. But after years of selling slightly improved old goods at steep new prices, at least a few labels have started focusing on quality control. "In this day and age and economy, we have to make something remarkable, or we're not going to be able to compete," says Adam Block...
...Harvard Writing Project.Yet despite his extensive teaching experience, Jehn differs from the program’s two most recent directors—Sommers and Richard Marius, both nationally renowned for their work in the field of writing composition—in that Jehn does not have as strong a record of published works.Jehn was one of four finalists for the director position, along with writing program directors from comparable institutions. Though the advertisement Harvard released for the job said that an applicant must be a “published author in a liberal arts discipline and/or on writing pedagogy...