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...Like Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass was among the greatest male soul singers of the 20th century. We first noticed Teddy's talent while we were rehearsing Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes. One day in the early 1970s, Teddy, the group's drummer, was asked to sing, and this great, powerful voice came out of this tall, thin guy. He had one of the most flexible voices we had ever heard...
...greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre's lineage of hard-boiled icons, the baton passed from Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler to Ross Macdonald and finally to Parker, whose mononymous detective, Spenser, long ago entered the pantheon inhabited by Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer. Although Parker's body of work included books featuring other protagonists, it is Spenser who will endure and whose adventures will be read in the next century...
Throw tax cuts and job creation together, and you are likely to get a bevy of supporters in Washington - on both sides of the political divide. Yet President Obama's proposal to give companies an Uncle Sam rebate for hiring workers has been anything but a slam dunk. The idea, which Obama proposed last year, was dropped from a House of Representatives jobs bill. A similar measure has been proposed but not yet passed in the Senate...
...that the Federal Reserve saved taxpayers money by paying off Goldman and others in exchange for the bonds. The government gave AIG $29.6 billion to pay off the rest of its CDS contracts, acquiring the bonds in the process. Those bonds are now worth $23.5 billion. Either way, Uncle Sam winds...
...past two years we’ve lost our first spring match up against BU even though I thought we were always a better team,” junior captain Sam Rosekrans said. “This year we’re young but we have a better lineup, so we were able to start off stronger than ever before...