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...with sadness that i read of the death of Ray Conniff [MILESTONES, Oct. 28], a gifted musician, composer and bandleader. Lesser people leave footprints in the sand; Conniff's, however, are indelible. I first heard a Conniff record in 1957 and since then have been a collector of his recordings--even today. JACK HEYMANN Pretoria...
...commercially successful. That can be a curse in Japan, where the literati distinguish condescendingly between "pure" literature and fiction for the masses. Highbrow novelists compete for the tony Akutagawa Prize. Their down-market brethren wrestle over the Naoki Prize. Murakami, 53, has won neither (he has garnered lesser awards, including the Gunzo for debut novels.) "Murakami's work is in-between," explains Mitsuyoshi Numano, a literature professor at the University of Tokyo. "If a writer pursues high-quality literature, the book doesn't sell." Murakami's latest novel, Kafka on the Shore, has thus cast him into further disfavor with...
You’ve probably heard by now of John Mayer and Jack Johnson, the acoustic balladeers whose quiet, melancholy songs have taken off in the past year. They’re represented by lesser-known but still enchanting songs. But the highlight of the album is the crooner Norah Jones, with ‘Don’t Know Why’. It’s one of those perfect pop songs—catchy yet with a distinct character of relaxed jazz and perfectly composed...
...Because Cat III films were allowed to coexist with tamer fare in the same theaters, they didn?t have the toxic tinge that attaches to sexy and ultra-violent films elsewhere. In the U.S. and Europe, ?ultra? films are separate and lesser industries; for Hong Kong movie people, the line between mainstream and murky backwater is blurrier. Actors like Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Danny Lee and Kent Cheng shuttled with impunity from one category to the other. They played cannibalistic or necrophiliac killers, crazed cops and deranged victims in Cat III movies, then went back to standard action movies...
...doing so poorly? The answer is simple: bad debts, a knock-on effect from Germany's soaring bankruptcy rate. At Deutsche, provisions for loan write-offs rose to j753 million for the third quarter, nearly six times what they were a year before. In addition Deutsche, and to a lesser extent Commerzbank and Dresdner, have spent considerable sums over the past seven years building up their presence in investment banking - bad timing, in the face of bearish markets and the weakest mergers and acquisitions market in decades. Banks hoping to be bailed out by a quick change in the overall...