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.../Band of Gypsys. The band on this album features a rhythm section that consists of Hendrix's childhood pals, Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles at the drums and supplying many of the vocals. Although Miles is perhaps not so exciting and virtuosic a drummer as his predecessor Mitch Mitchell, Cox is definitely a better, funkier and less egotistical bass player than Hendrix' long-time sideman, Noel Redding...
...realist, tells Sacks over a dinner of spare ribs. But while she has animal rapport, her neurological wiring bypasses most human emotions; the upheavals of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet leave her unmoved. The characters closest to her heart are Star Trek's android Data and his poignant predecessor, the supercognitive Mr. Spock...
...that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed that Justin II repealed the divorce prohibition less than a year after his predecessor's death...
...Sheldon is the predecessor to The Bell Curve," Hersey says. "[Both are examples of] biological determinism: your genetic heritage that determines the parameters of your intelligence and other things like criminality...
...Following the departure of Mikhail Gorbachev, its divisions were split into a multitude of less potent directorates eventually accountable to the democratically-elected government. But in the last year, these remnants have reassembled themselves into a spying apparatus not far off in domestic and international power from their predecessor...