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...Trio 99[to]00 (Warner Bros.), due out Feb. 8, Metheny teams up with two of the hottest young guns on the New York City jazz scene, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart, for a bare-bones blowing session recorded in two days flat. The songs range from no-nonsense blues like Metheny's own (Go) Git It to a feathery bossa nova romp through the harmonic obstacle course of John Coltrane's Giant Steps. The biggest surprise is the old-fashioned show tune A Lot of Livin' to Do, coolly reharmonized in the oblique, quizzical manner of Metheny...
Researchers at Women.com studying women's online usage across the country, learned the same lesson. "The one thing common to all women was that they viewed each session as a search-and-destroy mission," says senior vice president of marketing Anna Zornosa. "They'd come online with a list of five to 12 things they wanted to get accomplished, ranging from 'How do I move my IRA?' to 'My child has this rash'--activities that expressed the range of their entire lives. This medium was built for the modern woman...
...Most applicants and families who visit Byerly Hall for the admissions info session stay on for a tour afterwards led by another student-run organization--the Crimson...
...admissions office runs an info session before they come on our tour where they talk about basic things," James says. "Our tour is so that they can meet a student and really get a student's perspective on anything they want...
Seasoned U.N. diplomats had expected something out of the ordinary when Richard Holbrooke, Washington's media-savvy U.N. ambassador, took over the presidency of the Security Council this month. They were not disappointed. Last week he devoted the council's first session in the new century to an unprecedented discussion of AIDS, normally the domain of lesser U.N. branches. And in a move guaranteed to draw maximum attention, he turned the presidency of the session over to Al Gore, an unusual platform for a U.S. Vice President. It was the first time the Security Council has discussed a health issue...