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...what long ago became a popular springtime ritual, Harvard students play dress-up and head over to the Office of Career Services (OCS) to vie for jobs as consultants and investment bankers...
...news is big business. Last week another media behemoth entered the 24-hour news competition, as Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News Channel, available initially in 17 million homes. It will vie for viewers with the granddaddy of 24-hour TV news, CNN (whose owner, Turner Broadcasting, last week became part of Time Warner, TIME's parent company), and with MSNBC, the ambitious TV-and-Internet news service launched in July by NBC and Microsoft...
...vocal Ouija board. On the very first track she stretches beyond jazz with a patient, deeply pleasing rendition of Walkin' After Midnight, a song made famous by country star Patsy Cline. And in a nod to her French roots, Peyroux delivers a vibrant version of Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. Dreamland features an impressive cast of supporting players. Pianist Chestnut provides restrained invention on Reckless Blues, guitarist Vernon Reid (formerly of the rock band Living Colour) enlivens Muddy Water, and up-and-coming jazz stars Marcus Printup (trumpet) and James Carter (saxophone) provide lift to several other tracks...
Though he'll vie for the championship this year, he has already sacrificed his sportsmanship...
...while clearly interested ahead of time in the art involved in setting up an exhibit in a museum, Rabinowitch endows each piece with enough enduring personality to deserve lingering attention. Here sits one, a misshapen manhole or new-fangled stop-watch, whose scratches and smoothness vie with the bold, geometric chords that stretch across its center. There sits another, a pueblo for dormice, whose precise measurements and truncated top make one wonder what is suggested or what might possibly be missing...