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SAVANE OPENS WITH A FEW NOTES on a single-stringed African violin. Then Touré comes in with a guitar riff worthy of onetime boss John Lee Hooker, and Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown's ex-saxophonist, blows on through. And there you have it: the journey of the blues from West Africa to the Apollo in just a few seconds. It's rare that world music actually contains multitudes, but Touré, a hero in his native Mali, picks the pocket of any culture with something to offer. There's a stew that makes you optimistic about the future, even...
...previous charge of possession of a handgun without a permit, had the misfortune of being spotted by Muncie police as he left a gas station last week. Even worse, three of the arresting officers - women's world wrestling champion Trish Stratus, former CHiPS star Erik Estrada and Jason Wee-Man Acuna - were celebrities, who had received police training and joined the law-enforcement team for the TV reality show...
...There is a place among the faculty for those who seek to contribute to human knowledge in the former fashion—that is, indirectly—and frankly, it’s unfortunate that we presently force them to compromise their research time for the sake of teaching wee, trivial undergraduates. These professors should be relieved of their teaching duties immediately and consigned to the research that is their passion. They should, of course, have their salaries adjusted accordingly. After all, if you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have your pudding...
...course, the conversation lasts for hours. But it’s not totally aimless. “It’s a more focused discussion than at a bar or in a dining hall, but our conversation is allowed to wander,” admits McMillian. In the wee hours of the morning, McMillian’s eight erudite guests trickle off into the rainy night, all the wiser for having participated in the powerful discussion. Cambridge in 2006 might not be the Village in the 1920’s, but that won’t stop McMillian from hosting...
...this is a surefire bedtime story. The word sleepy occurs 31 times in Shulevitz's lulling text, in which even the objects in a sleepy boy's room--bed, clock, dishes, pictures on the wall--are sleepy. In a dreamlike interlude, music and dancing awaken the room in the wee hours. But the music fades; silence falls again. And when every sleepy thing is so sleepy sleepy, the spell of sleepiness becomes irresistible...