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...company and his son. It's sizable?though not the biggest office at STAR?with a bank of televisions on one wall and a window overlooking the harbor. The furniture is early modern, but the giant Frank Gehry cardboard chairs from his funky New York office are absent. The nondescript desk is uncluttered, and the shelves are weighted down with tomes about media and technology. There's a picture of James with former President George H. W. Bush and a picture of his sister Elisabeth's daughter. And the guy sitting behind the desk looks like he's maturing...
...novel improvisation to “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” elevating the joyful little ditty to the status of noteworthy art. It’s unfortunate that Charlie Parker’s groundbreaking rendition of “White Christmas” is absent, but otherwise, there’s little wrong with the set. Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé and John Coltrane, among others, round out a polished, balanced presentation. Christmas music (or movies) make awful presents, but if stumped when buying for a jazz affeccionado, this ain?...
Unrealistic, you cry. Utterly pointless, a waste of precious response-paper writing time. But why? Why, when we farm ourselves out to Habitats for Humanity and soup kitchens in Roxbury, can we not turn the philosophy of community service onto our own, where it is so conspicuously absent? Only in this way can we become full-fledged members of a community, and not just advocates of one. Only in this way does our rhetoric become something quite useful, and only in this way can we turn a debate mired in the Bushism of good versus evil to one that?...
...committee rules allow a postponement of the agenda when a member is absent if any one member proposes...
Simmons said Turkel’s action was “in deference to a colleague that was absent...