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...barrage of expensive and ubiquitous advertising campaigns by drug companies, who tout their products to a miserably sniffling populace as the pharmaceutical road to freedom - their ads feature former allergy sufferers laughingly windsurfing their way across a telegenic field of wheat. Heaven knows that image is certainly tough to resist...
Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet--it just doesn't begin to describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto--impassioned, expansive, inclusive--distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...
Calling Don Byron a jazz musician is like calling the Pacific wet - it just doesn't begin to describe it. Magazines may not be able to resist the impulse to categorize, but Byron has carpentered an extraordinary career precisely by obliterating the very idea of category. Though he made his bones as a jazz clarinetist, over the past decade he has developed a sort of musical Esperanto - impassioned, expansive, inclusive - distilled from the babel of styles, genres and species, both historical and contemporary, that make up our perception of music itself...
Keeping scattered agents in line is all the harder when each field office is its own fiefdom. Individual agents have tremendous autonomy; they depend so much on their secret informants that they resist sharing information up and down the food chain. That need-to-know mentality has suffused the whole bureau; agents investigating Wen Ho Lee didn't even know that he and his wife had been paid FBI informants a few years earlier. During Louis Freeh's eight-year tenure (he is stepping down next month), the bureau was often at war with the Clinton Justice Department, largely over...
...must have been walking down the street and spotted the open wine bar. She could not resist the urge to drink and her visceral impulse seized the opportunity. These thoughts swirled around my head as I haphazardly read about the x-ray process that the late artist had used to make his floral prints. The image of her floral dress lingers in my memory. Her action clashed with the aura of the dress and with the aura of the room...