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...think of Henri Matisse, wheelchair-bound in his 80s, who continued to create art - cutting out bits of colored paper, painting with his brush in his mouth, supervising his decoration of the Chapel of the Rosary in Saint-Paul de Vence - because it was what he did, because it kept him alive. For those reasons, Les Paul shows up at Iridium each Monday evening, putting the final touches, grace notes, to the edifice of his achievement...
...David Larson, a professor of labor and employment law at Saint Paul?s Hamline University School of Law, feels the Bartell case could send a message to other companies making decisions about employee health care policies. "In a sense, this is something of a landmark case," Larson told TIME.com. "The particulars of contraception haven?t been litigated before - and some of the language used in this case can be extended to other cases. The language does say 'if you choose to cut out certain drug coverage for cost reasons, you?d better be sure you?re not putting one group...
...visible on the ice this year. Harvard nearly upset the eventual national champions, Boston College, in a home thriller in November. But the Crimson really came into its own down the stretch run, dumping conference-leader St. Lawrence at home, 4-1, on Feb. 17 by killing off eight Saint power plays in the game...
...Bach's Saint John Passion "It's exalted and gloomy, a range that I find congenial...
...What difference does a mother make? Rearrange a few biographies. Suppose Nixon had been raised by a mother more along the lines of, say, Winston Churchill's - Jennie Randolph, no saint but a fairly negligent absentee? Would that have made Nixon Churchillian? Suppose, at the other extreme, that Nixon had been dealt the hand (a straight flush) of little Franklin Roosevelt. Suppose Nixon had grown up - not in his bleakly struggling Whittier, California, with the gas station and the saint and the angry, punitive Dad - but as a darling of the Hudson River gentry, doted upon as an only child...