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...Sandy R. Santana '97, president of the Dominican Students' Organization, agreed...
...next morning Awilda called Francisco Santana, a downstairs neighbor. "She was crying, 'I can't believe it, tell me it's not true,'" he says. When he arrived at her apartment, she showed him Elisa's motionless body. He put his hand to the child's cold forehead, pronounced her dead and spent the next two hours pleading with Awilda to call the police. When he finally called himself, he says, she ran to the apartment roof and had to be restrained from jumping. When the police arrived, she confessed to killing Elisa by throwing her against a concrete wall...
...Hooker has just released a new album, Chill Out, which once again showcases his remarkable talent, collaborating with other musical luminaries like guitarist Carlos Santana and singer Van Morrison. As a singer, songwriter and guitarist, Hooker conveys the power of the blues like few others today. His name belongs in anybody's list of blues greats, along with the likes of Robert Johnson, Elmore James and Muddy Waters...
...blues albums go, Chill Out is a palatable and fairly reliable work. Unfortunately, when Hooker strays too far from his standard style, the results are disappointing. For example, the first song, "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)," sounds like Santana's own classic "Black Magic Woman" at its high point, but at its low point resembles a Bar Mitzvah band's version of Tito Puente. In a sense, Hooker's voice and Santana's style are completely incongruous. Or in other words, blues and samba just...
Applying under the cover story that he was a self-educated farm hand, "Santana" earned a $20,000 scholarship from the school...