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...University. What exactly are the social or intellectual benefits of diversity--and of what kind of diversity? (Of opinions? ethnic background? experience?) Additionally, Choi raises an issue that continues to occupy all modern democracies: the proper balance between the necessary cultivation of elites and the egalitarian ground tenor of democracy. (Choi comes down squarely on the side of the elites, or the "few best souls," as he calls them...
Older students report stories of house officials shutting down student parties precisely at 1 a.m., saying that the current e-mail fits the tenor of general house policy...
Other shows refused to put Aldrich on after they read the book, finding its Liz-Marries-Space-Alien tenor beneath credibility. For example, Aldrich goes on for five pages about the December day in 1994 when he helped decorate the White House Christmas tree with an anatomically correct gingerbread man, lords doing a lot more than leaping and other "sex toys and self-mutilation devices" approved by Hillary Clinton. This is ludicrous. First, the entire press corps sees the tree and would notice three hens fornicating. Second, all the decorations sent in from artists are screened for appropriateness (two were...
DIED. MEL ALLEN, 83, sportscaster whose tenor-toned Alabama drawl became the voice of the New York Yankees; in Greenwich, Connecticut...
Still, authenticity is served. All the numbers are built on the era's vintage tunes and formats--the loose, buoyant ensembles (Moten Swing and a hypnotically undulating Pagin' the Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter...