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...Detroit; since then, she has played and recorded with a seemingly endless list of notable and diverse musicians—Bill Cosby, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, Ravi Coltrane, and Marianne Faithfull, to name but a few. Allen has also put out a dozen albums. Most recently, the Walt Whitman Arts Center and Meet the Composer commissioned her to write “For the Healing of the Nations,” a jazz piece in tribute to the victims and survivors of Sept. 11. As part of the OFA-sponsored program, Allen participated in a “Musical Conversation?...
...Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed that U.S. forces had carried out an air strike in Africa. An AC-130 gunship, he said, had targeted "what we believe to be senior al-Qaeda leadership." Whitman neither specified a location nor confirmed reports of other U.S. attacks. Asked about another air strike on Jan. 23--confirmed to TIME by a Pentagon officer--Whitman said, "We're going to go after al-Qaeda and the global war on terror, wherever it takes us." He continued: "I don't have anything for you on Somalia...
...year history. In interviews with The Crimson, Thain’s former Business School classmates remembered his days across the Charles, where he attended school along with his Merrill Lynch predecessor E. Stanley O’Neal, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and eBay CEO Margaret C. Whitman. James J. Burke Jr., a 1979 graduate of the Business School, said that Thain’s skills were well suited to maneuver Merrill Lynch out of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that has plagued financial firms across the country in recent months. Thain has gained a reputation as a cordial, perspicacious technocrat...
Porter will be joined on Romney’s global competitiveness group by a number of business professionals—including honorary co-chairs William B. Harrison, Jr., who is the former chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, and Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay. Whitman is an HBS graduate...
...photography book about U.S. history produced by Time is a perfect combination: photography is the most democratic of art forms, and Time has always been about explaining America to ourselves. "I contain multitudes," Walt Whitman boasted, and so does this book: a multitude of ideas, people, places, disasters and dreams. "The United States," Whitman wrote, "is essentially the greatest poem." We just combined that poetry with pictures...