Word: southern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonetheless impressed his colleagues in the Class of 1968 with his gregarious personality and smooth Southern charm--the same elements that are helping him to the top of the Republican presidential field...
...extremely Southern oriented. He was definitely from Tennessee. I think you would have known he was from the South," says Robert A. Somerby '69, a Gore blockmate...
Canada, host this year to more than 3,000 American students, is the most popular destination for those seeking undergraduate degrees abroad, in no small part because it's close to home. Katy Morley, 18, chose Bishop's University in southern Quebec because she wanted to leave Vermont yet remain within a two-hour drive of her family's farm. "I loved Bishop's from the first minute," she says. She appreciates her small classes, the charming Quebec scenery and the "low-key" people, whose "whole mind set is different" from that of Americans...
Haden's most recent album with his Quartet West, the ravishing The Art of Song (Verve), is a lyrical excursion across a landscape that embraces classical music (Rachmaninoff's Moment Musical), folk (Wayfaring Stranger), American popular song (Kern's In Love in Vain) and contemporary jazz (Jeri Southern's Theme for Charlie and Haden's own Ruth's Waltz). The only thing these disparate pieces have in common is Haden's singular vision, his insistence that this music beats with a single heart that pulses as steadily as his bass swings...
...year alone, the AIDS virus has become the deadliest microbe in the world, more lethal than even TB and malaria. There are 34 developing countries where the prevalence of this infection is 2% or greater. In Africa nearly a dozen countries have a rate higher than 10%, including four southern nations in which a quarter of the people are infected. And the situation continues to worsen; more than 6 million new infections appeared in 1999. This is akin to sentencing 16,000 people each day to a slow and miserable death...