Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...right, although sometimes the exposure backfired, as it did at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Florence when a woman asked what he could do to help her chronically ill son. Bush danced around the question for a while, talking about the virtues of medical savings accounts, before acknowledging that he couldn't help her. He shrugged in a way that suggested he didn't know why he was supposed to solve everyone's problems. "I'm sorry," he said. "I wish I could wave a wand." It was an honest answer, but it lacked the empathy Americans have come...
...music as a hobby; the career can come later, just as it did for himself. But Ben has come to his father for advice; his father was able to offer great perspective with Ben was faced with tough decision making in picking musical groups at Harvard. Upon hearing his son's offer to play with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Isaiah asked, "What do you know about baroque music?" Ben replied, "It's tuned to A-flat, right?" Isaiah laughed and replied, "That's politically incorrect...
...Their separate performances last weekend at Sanders is the closest father and son have been so far to sharing a stage. Still, while Ben has never performed under his father's baton, he hopes that he will someday. "It might be weird. I mean, what would I call him in front of everyone else in rehearsal?" he explains. "But my father is a great conductor and I imagine there is lots to learn musically from...
...Perhaps father and son will finally perform together in the future. They may even be joined by yet another Jackson. Ben's sister Kate has been accepted to the Class of 2004, and both father and son hope that she will join them in the academic and perhaps even the musical tradition they have established in their family and at Harvard...
...Soundview section of the Bronx, where, White says, "the entire black community is vibrating like a plucked string." On Friday and throughout the weekend, anguished crowds gathered into the evening on the block where Diallo was gunned down, some standing silently with candles, others incoherent in their anger. "My son could end up as the next Amadou Diallo," one young father cried...