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...College of Music took over its production. The change in management resulted in continued growth and an increase in the quality of performing artists. Last year’s lineup, for example, included jazz legend Herbie Hancock, while tonight’s indoor performance will feature premier female drummers Terri Lyne Carrington and Cindy Blackman, who have played with Hancock and Lenny Kravitz respectively. Their appearance is part of an annual attempt at innovation. “It’s not often you see a jazz band led by drummers,” Balkin said. “We?...
...Protection of traditional knowledge and cultural copyright were the subjects of a three-day symposium held during the festival. "Any traditional knowledge should not be used, adapted or commercialized without the prior informed consent of the relevant traditional custodians," said Terri Janke, legal consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organisation...
...questions that drove the Terri Schiavo debate were universal: life and death; man, God and science. But the battle to remove Schiavo's feeding tube after 15 years in a vegetative state - her husband Michael made that decision against the wishes of Schiavo's deeply religious parents - was also a uniquely American drama of fiery Florida preachers, New York talk show hosts and Washington judges and politicians...
...controlled legislature has responded to the state's woes with protracted arguments about evolution and other Terri Schiavo - style social issues as well as legislation proposing crackdowns on bikers who pop wheelies, students who wear droopy pants and truckers who hang fake cojones on their rigs. It also slashed $5 billion from the state budget. "I just got in an argument about whether we're 50th or 45th in the nation in graduation rates," says Florida house minority leader Dan Gelber. "What a great debate to have...
...disease and bound to a wheelchair, Johnson resented assumptions about her quality of life. She railed against the "pity-based tactics" of the Jerry Lewis muscular dystrophy telethon, challenged a prominent Princeton professor on the ethics of euthanizing disabled infants and spoke out in defense of the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo when her case polarized the nation on the right-to-life debate. An accomplished writer who punctuated her arguments with sardonic humor, Johnson penned numerous articles and a 2005 memoir, Too Late to Die Young. She died in her sleep...