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...follow a group of musicians on a parade route--a fitting start for a founder of New Orleans' modern-jazz scene. A versatile clarinetist-composer for greats from Ray Charles to Cannonball Adderley, Batiste drew national attention in the '80s as a member of the innovative band Clarinet Summit. The bebop master died of an apparent heart attack hours before he was to perform alongside Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick...
...will attend the June summit of the Group of Eight major industrialized countries - the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and Russia - hosted by Germany, which has made climate change a top priority on the agenda...
...Brundtland said she and the other special envoys - former South Korean Foreign Minister Han Seung-soo and former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos - will be consulting ahead of the G-8 summit with leaders from the main emitters of greenhouse gases, from the major developing world economies, and from small island nations and the poorest countries...
...days, Crist announced efforts to provide hurricane-insurance relief, ditch controversial touch-screen voting machines for ones with a paper trail, create a "children's cabinet" to fix Florida's dysfunctional child-welfare services, increase teacher pay by $300 million and reduce the state's overcrowded classrooms, convene a summit on global warming, promote stem-cell research and restore voting rights to felons who complete their sentences (which he did last month). At one point during Crist's State of the State address in March, delighted African-American legislators broke into call-and-response chants with the Governor...
...made headlines last week when he politely urged the recording and broadcasting industries to excise the words “bitch,” “ho,” and “nigger” from all music. In a statement released through his Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, Simmons called these words “derogatory and disrespectful” and asked music executives to delete them from songs on a voluntary basis...