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DIED. Michael Brecker, 57, rich-toned, 11-time Grammy winner widely regarded as the most influential jazz saxophonist since John Coltrane; of leukemia; in New York City. A prized session player for artists from Chet Baker to Bruce Springsteen, he also dazzled as a front man in his own bands, including the rock fusion group the Brecker Brothers, with his trumpet-playing brother Randy. Of his early encounter with the dense, hypnotic riffs of Coltrane, who inspired him to become a professional musician, he said, "There seemed to be too many notes lying around. I kept listening to it, though...
...this is just prelude to my last stop. I'm back with Barbara Pachter for a one-on-one coaching session a few weeks later at her stylish home office in Cherry Hill, N.J. If you are a voluntary visitor to Pachter's studio, it means your employer cares enough about you and your future to plunk down more than $3,000 to smooth your rough edges. But if you appear via corporate command to what has been called charm school, you are probably in manners trouble. Sometimes bosses use Pachter to deliver embarrassing news, like the caution...
...Primal Scream has remarkably little to do with hedonistic urges. It’s a further desexualization of an already desexualized place. I hear at Stanford, one mid-trimester tradition entails an hour-long make-out session between strangers under the full moon. Now that’s what I call primal...
...Emerging from a three-hour session with Ms. Rice, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert then met with supporters of his Kadima party and made it clear that he would negotiate with a Palestinian "national unity" government only if it recognized the state of Israel, renounced violence and respected previous accords Palestinians had signed with the Israelis...
...said "Picking up Evercrack, I see." I didn't fully get the joke until two years later. By then I was playing the game 16 hours a day. I'd gained 30 pounds. I didn't have a job. The end came one weekend when I played a marathon session, which I only interrupted for trips to Dunkin' Donuts. I quit, lost the weight, and put my life back in order. But when WoW premiered in 2004, it promised to be the MMOG that allowed you to have a life. The game even gives bonuses to players...