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Jazz Ensemble's Otherworldly Flights
A key ingredient in the wondrously weird, zealously zesty musical recipe for the Shakers n' Bakers, an extraordinary New York-based improvising ensemble, is the so-called "vision songs" or "gift songs" received in ecstatic trance states by young Shaker...Tags: West Hartford, Manchester Community College, New York, Tickets, John Adams
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Foxwoods To Lay Off 700 Employees
After hiring thousands of new workers for the opening of its MGM Grand expansion, Foxwoods Resort Casino said Tuesday that it will lay off 700 employees in the next few weeks, about 6 percent of its workforce. "It's an across-the-board reduction. It's...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Connecticut, Layoffs and Downsizing, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Catty's Docherty still beating competition
At Catasauqua High School, Erin Docherty was the hunted when she was recruited by universities to play Division I soccer. Now she's the hunter as a recruiter of top finance professionals. Docherty, 25, was The Morning Call's girls soccer player of the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, High School Sports, Soccer, Schools, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Genius in our midst
Three Marylanders - an astrophysicist who discovered "dark energy," a critical care physician whose innovative checklists are preventing hospital infections and a novelist writing about love and horror during the Nigerian civil war - are among the 25...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Reisterstown, New York, Los Angeles, Astronomy
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Other MacArthur grant winners
Baltimore Sun reporterMaryland winners Adam Riess, 38, Towson. Astrophysicist, professor of physics and astronomy, Johns Hopkins University; astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute. Co-discoverer of "dark energy" and the accelerating expansion of the universe B.S.,...Tags: Reisterstown, Johns Hopkins University, New York, Astronomy, Los Angeles
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Documentary On Clergy Scandal And Coverup To Be Screened
Courant Staff Writer"Vows of Silence," a documentary based on the book "Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II" by former Courant reporter Gerald Renner and Jason Berry, will be screened Oct. 9 at Fairfield University. Berry, the film's director,...Tags: Sexual Assault, Carol Reed, Crimes, Colleges and Universities, Movies
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An Opera Lover's Feast On Screen And Radio
Courant Staff WriterThe public has spoken. Opera lovers nationwide turned out in massive numbers for last season's high-def simulcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. So the world-famous opera company is presenting a new season of simulcasts and encores from...Tags: Theater, Values, John Adams, Cinderella, Ethics
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A Lieberman Political Party That Opposes Lieberman
Even casual observers know that Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has invested significant time and political capital in electing John McCain president. So, it only follows that the Connecticut for Lieberman Party would be squarely for McCain,...Tags: West Hartford, Corporate Crime, Political Candidates, National Government, Voting
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Wall Street Crisis Pressures State Businesses
Courant Staff WritersThe collapse of the once-mighty Lehman Brothers investment bank and the takeover of brokerage giant Merrill Lynch sent shock waves Monday right to the desk of Henry Nozko Jr. in New Britain. Nozko, president of construction insurer and contractor ACMAT...Tags: Gerber Scientific Incorporated, Financial Services, Financial Markets, Federal Reserve, Financial and Business Services
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Amethyst Initiative unites educators in quest to lower drinking age
College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge...Tags: Students, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), National Government, Middlebury, Teaching and Learning
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Richard C. Proto
Richard C. Proto, a mathematician and former chief of research at the National Security Agency, died Sunday of lung cancer at his Columbia home. He was 68. Mr. Proto was born and raised in New Haven, Conn., where he graduated in 1958 from Wilbur Cross...Tags: Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Catonsville, Washington (Litchfield, Connecticut), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Death and Dying
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