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...said, 'Yeah, wait until you see the picture of you. It's not too good.' It was just gigantic! You know, Mao would have been so jealous!" Some couples have ballroom dancing. The Gateses have saving the world. And they like to do it the uncomfortable way, by looking straight into lives they know nothing about. Paul Farmer, a public-health pioneer, has been host to them both in Haiti. "I think they, unlike many people, have allowed themselves to remain open to the pain that a lot of people experience," he says. "Watching them listen, really listen, and wait...
...eight albums of early Ray Charles a little much? Damn straight. The makers of this boxed set exercise no restraint, but they do include some fascinating stuff. Skip the well-worn hits, and go right to the song sketches to hear how Charles felt his way toward redefining American pop music. And if you somehow make it to disc eight, the reward is a recording of the legendary moment when record executive Ahmet Ertegun sang a bizarre-- but not at all bad-- version of What'd I Say to convince Charles of the song's potential...
...minutes from an Oct. 27 meeting show that the Caucus hopes to achieve its goals through existing structures rather than through channels of its own creation: “Specific proposals that are developed in the full meetings can have two outputs: 1. To the faculty council 2. Straight to the full faculty...
...aside time for a long line of the ill and elderly to personally greet him. A girl, perhaps 9 or 10 years old, approached, holding her mother's hand and gripping a teddy bear. Her hair was cut short and her face was puffy from medication. The Pope looked straight in the little girl's eager eyes, and brushed his hand with a blessing across her forehead. And then, without missing a beat, he reached over and blessed the teddy bear in the same way. Among those for whom doctrine is key, Benedict's unshakable convictions will earn him both...
...Stehle’s second half performance was all the more important in light of the continued absence of junior center Brian Cusworth, who missed his third straight game with a left hand fracture. The Crimson had struggled to replace the 7’0 center’s interior scoring until Wednesday night, when Stehle used a series of post moves and outside jumpers to dominate the smaller LIU frontcourt...