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...Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements. It's about "My baby left me." (See pictures of electric-guitar players...
...consider your father old-fashioned for playing jazz? My father was so much hipper than anybody I ever met. He could come on the bandstand and wipe us up. I never reduced my father to any social clich...
...transactions - or a "Tobin tax," as the suggestion became known - the idea is enjoying a new lease of life. At a meeting of G-20 finance ministers last weekend, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suggested the group of leading countries consider the tax to establish "a better economic and social contract between financial institutions and the public based on trust and a just distribution of risks and rewards...
Businessman Stephen Pagliuca and social activist Alan Khazei ’83 battled it out yesterday in a debate held in Austin Hall at the Harvard Law School. Both men are running in the Democratic primary on December 8 to fill the seat of former Mass. Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
Khazei framed himself as a “social entrepreneur,” one who has spent his whole career in public service...