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Int'l Jazz Educators Assn., RIP A 40-year-old, 8000-member organization goes bankrupt...
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After the fact Bob Dylan needs a Pulitzer Prize a lot less than the Pulitzer Prizes need Bob Dylan....
Bon Appetit! If Petraeus can spin the Iraq menu again, he ought to be promoted from four-star general to five-star headwaiter....
From rent-a-car to rent-a-Sunni It's the American way. But the general warns: "Remember, we do not own these people. We merely rent them."...
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Drum Roll Redux Now that this blog has been redesigned has anything changed since the first post on Aug. 11, 2003?...
A View from the Top Things are going swell in Iraq. Civil war? Nah. Just that Baghdad has six million people, "all of them armed."...
Five Years Later Words won't do. No penetration....
There's something happening out here You don't need a major city or great infrastructure to make a major arts event....
Nonprofit retention and vacancy OpportunityKnocks explores the scope, scale, and sources of staff turnover....
Take the What Train? Some folks wanted to name a Montreal subway station for the late Oscar Peterson in his old nabe. Forget it....
The Monkees: Pomo Arrivistes......
When do you serve your mission by closing your doors? A somber but essential question for all nonprofits....