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...than the rum, cigars and music. There are issues that loom larger than a child custody battle. Regardless of what you see at Cultural Rhythms this weekend, as you pass by the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association's table of Cuban cuisine and listen to music playing in the background, realize that bittersweet mementos will never assuage the hurt of a people under the scourge of a tyrant...
...knows the musical offerings of Harvard well. Apart from singing and arranging for the Callbacks, Jackson fils also plays the violin for the Baroque Chamber Orchestra. He loves the fact that he performs with two very different groups with music from two very different centuries. Likewise, Ben's musical background is quite diverse. He began playing the piano at five and within a few years picked up the violin. The Jacksons lived in Britain for several years and in elementary school, Ben sang with the boys choir at his school. Moving to Dayton, Ohio, in 1991, Ben continued his musical...
Last week, Fox executives assured the New York Times that they had done a thorough background check on Rick Rockwell to make sure that he was in fact worth the millions of dollars that he claimed he was worth. Even Fox realized the superficiality of their background search in light of this new discovery, and have cancelled the next showing of "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire...
...TIME's parent company is Jewish, but all three went to highly selective private colleges in the East. The change goes beyond mere anecdote. The overall tenor of elite institutions such as law firms, investment banks and university faculties has changed, becoming distinctly brainier, less social, more diverse in background...
...whole they have shifted from the raccoon-coat, football-weekend paradigm of the old days, in which the premier human attribute was a hard-to-define quality called "character," to a different value system, in which being smart is first on the list of virtues and a humble background is a badge of honor...