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...Ella Fitzgerald. “This song is one of the reasons I want to name my first daughter ‘Ella.’ I remember watching one of Ella Fitzgerald’s last concerts ever, but unfortunately I didn’t have the attention span back then to appreciate her ridiculously long and virtuosic scat solos...
...face masks.Now they were gutting her home, carrying her moldy belongings to the curb with aching arms as others tore doors from hinges with crowbars.Smith watched silently, her face hidden by a mask.As the spring break volunteers deposited the debris on the curb, the pile slowly grew to span the length of the modest New Orleans home.“I was going through all their possessions and throwing them all out on the sidewalk,” said Gayatri S. Datar ’07, who coordinated service trips in the city. “This was kind...
...together over the years-an organization called Vision America, which is out recruiting pastors to get involved in the political arena. He asked me to come speak. He was having a conference on the war on Christianity. So I made a speech on Wednesday. It was covered by C-Span and, frankly, a bunch of cameras. I felt very good, very free about giving that speech. The reaction was incredible-just an outpouring of love and support from the audience. It was probably the one single event that convinced me: I can DO this. I could keep fighting...
While it is true that the communities in and around San Francisco have taken a number of laudable steps--constructing a whole new span for the San Francisco--Oakland Bay Bridge, for example--it is also plain that they need to do more. There are tens of thousands of older buildings in the Bay Area that do not meet modern earthquake standards, among them office and apartment buildings whose upper floors rest atop an unreinforced storefront or garage. In an earthquake, such "soft-story" buildings are likely to collapse or sustain damage so severe that no one will be able...
...high quantity of games in such a short span feeds an all-hands-on-deck mentality and affords the unit’s youngest and most versatile players a time to shine...