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...starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (who gave him his nickname) before landing a job as the Tonight Show's first bandleader. With his Vandyke beard and audience-participation games, he was a key part of the show, bantering with Steve Allen and, later, Johnny Carson. After a jail stint for income-tax evasion, he founded the symphonic orchestra New York Pops, which he directed until his death...
...Swashbuckling Defense Minister Moshe Dayan took most of the credit -- an injustice that rankles Rabin to this day. Nevertheless, he always subscribed to the Labor Party doctrine that one day Israel would have to trade back territory for peace. The general first became Prime Minister in 1974 after a stint as ambassador to Washington. His tenure cut short in 1977 by a scandal over a small but illegal U.S. bank account he maintained with his wife, he retreated to Labor's back bench until 1984, when the national unity government of Shimon Peres, his bitter rival within the Labor Party...
...It’s nice to see Dave taking himself so lightly—he recorded “How Can I Love You” in the months following a stint in rehab and a suicide attempt. Things do take darker turn near the video’s end, however: Dave beats one of his hippie companions with a chain link, and then turns it on himself in a disquieting act of self-flagellation...
...fact, his stint here at Harvard is, by Murakami standards, almost a vacation...
...give public lectures. Carroll offers unparalleled expertise in the newspaper business, according to Alex S. Jones, the Shorenstein Center’s director. “He is among the most respected journalists in the United States,” Jones said. Carroll will draw on his five-year stint as editor of the Times, and previous experience as editor of the Baltimore Sun, to examine the ever-changing nature of the newspaper business. “My research project will be about the circumstances journalists are facing as the business of journalism goes through its current upheaval...