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...never found her Clark Gable. But she seemed to have wanton fun in the search. Her last beau, lawyer Howard K. Stern, perhaps the father or not of her five-month-old daughter, had joined her in a legally non-binding "commitment" ceremony in the Bahamas in late September last year, two weeks after her son's death. Together, they had jumped off a catamaran after the ceremony, swimming to a nearby island where they celebrated with champagne and fried chicken. This week, she checked into the glitzy Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. She'd been there in the past...
...prose made palpable the styles and physicality of performers like drummer "Big Sid" Catlett (whose "huge hands ... reduced the drumsticks to pencils") and trumpeter "Doc" Cheatham (whose solos were "a succession of lines, steps, curves, parabolas, angles and elevations"). Defining his role as appreciative witness as opposed to stern judge, he and writer Nat Hentoff in 1957 put together TV's The Sound of Jazz, which showcased Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and others in what are now deemed some of the finest performances in jazz history...
...statement released last night through a spokesman, Harvard Students for Israel President Dana Stern ’09 supported Ashkenazi’s appointment, saying that he had served “respectfully and humanely in Sinai and Lebanon...
...Politically motivated organizations often attempt to unjustly criticize Israeli officials under the guise of human rights,” Stern said, “but the fact remains that the IDF is one of the most morally conscious armies in the world and only promotes the most highly respected soldiers to its top ranks...
...business of a colonial power to bestow the land on anyone, and certainly not upon Jews from the far reaches of Eastern Europe. Lord Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary in 1917, had served in Ireland as Governor-General during the British occupation. His administration there was known to be stern. Once, an Irishman came to him to complain that the British policies lacked justice. ''Justice?'' Lord Balfour said thoughtfully. ''There is not enough to go around.'' In the Middle East there is a permanent struggle over the meaning of justice, and the answering virtue of mercy is not much...