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...DIED. CLEMENT (SIR COXSONE) DODD, 72, pioneering Jamaican music producer who launched the influential Studio One and was the first person to record Bob Marley and the Wailers; in Kingston, Jamaica. In the 1950s, he operated some of the most popular "sound systems"?makeshift turntable and speaker sets that played dance records for partygoers?which helped lay the foundation for hip-hop and DJ culture...
Bahadu as well as several other marshals and class committee House representatives contacted yesterday declined to comment on the identity of the speaker, who has been a noted comedian in three of the past four years...
With less than one month until Class Day, the Senior Class Committee has yet to name a speaker for the event—meaning that the eventual announcement will come over a month later than it has in the two previous years...
...prop him up because Saakashvili had won the respect of Russian President Vladimir Putin by successfully balancing Russian and U.S. interests in the region. Arriving in Batumi to a hero's welcome early Thursday morning, Saakashvili thanked the Ajarians for their "unprecedented heroism and dignity." In Tbilisi, Nino Burjanadze, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, told Time that Georgia had "shown the whole world how important democratic principles are to us." Abashidze was "a classic Soviet-era apparatchik," says Robert Parsons, head of the Georgian service at Radio Liberty in Prague. He effectively stripped opposition parties and media of any influence...
...would expect you’d really have to find another charismatic speaker like Cornel in order to get these gigantic figures,” Sollors says. “But there might be somebody who is intriguing enough to draw half the students [Cornel did] and that would already be great...