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...overture to Snow, a sax player who once taught physics in Kenya, was one of the first decisions by White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten after he was named to the job last month. He took Counselor Dan Bartlett into his confidence, and Bartlett reached out to Snow. White House officials said Bolten has made communications a priority and has calculated that it is in the President?s interest to engage reporters...
...News bio notes that he plays flute, alto flute, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax and guitar. He has worked as an advocate for the mentally ill and the developmentally disabled in North Carolina, taught physics and East African geography in Kenya, and has been a substitute teacher in subjects ranging from calculus to seventh-grade...
...move, working with counselor Dan Bartlett, was to offer the press secretary job to Tony Snow of Fox News radio and television, a former newspaper editorial writer and onetime host of Fox News Sunday who served George H.W. Bush as speechwriting director. Snow, a father of three and a sax player, is the bona fide outsider that Republican allies have long prescribed for Bushworld and would bring irreverence to a place that hasn't seen a lot of fun lately. "White Houses are weird places," he told a 2004 panel on White House speechwriting. Snow had his colon removed after...
...pregnancy and HIV transmission. Funding for abstinence-only education has increased substantially in the U.S., McGuire said, and intervention funds are dwindling. “We’re going in the wrong direction in terms of where we’re committing funds,” she said.Paul Sax, clinical director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of medicine at HMS, gave a presentation on medical and clinical issues in HIV patient care. One of his patients, Joan Bennett, talked about living with...
...complex, yet somehow still infinitely listenable. It is a capability that sets him apart as a unique performer with more than a few great performances. So, when an engineer at the Library of Congress recently discovered a supposedly lost 1957 recording of the Thelonious Monk Quartet performing with tenor sax legend John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, jazz fans were foaming at the mouth...