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John Adams was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Mass. His father was a modest but successful farmer and local officeholder. After some initial reluctance, Adams entered Harvard and received his bachelor's degree in 1755. For about a year he taught school in Worcester. Though he gave some thought to entering the ministry, Adams was repelled by the theological acrimony resulting from the period of the Great Awakening and turned to the law. After studying under James Putnam, Adams was admitted to the Boston bar in 1758. While developing his legal practice, he participated in town affairs and contributed his first essays to the Boston newspapers.
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John Adams has become increasingly active as a conductor of his own and other new music. From 1987 to 1990 Adams served as creative chair of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducting four weeks of concerts and overseeing their new music activities. In 1993, he served as music director of the Ojai Festival. With the Ensemble Modern he led a European tour in 1993 and an American tour in 1996. Adams has has ... served as Music Director of the Cabrillo Festival and as Artist in Association with the BBC Symphony. He has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Concertgebouw, and the London Sinfonietta.
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THE DECISION this week by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III declaring unconstitutional the Dover, Pa., school board's advocacy of "intelligent design" is not binding on any other jurisdiction. In practical terms it doesn't matter even in Dover, where voters recently tossed out all but one of the school board members responsible for ensuring that high school biology students get advised of this "alternative" to classical evolutionary theory. It is nonetheless an important decision, both because it exhaustively documents how the theory of intelligent design is not science but cleverly repackaged creationism and because it rightly insists that such a religion-infused idea has no place in public schools. It therefore represents a model for judicial consideration of the proliferating effort to use intelligent design to undermine the teaching of biology.
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Admittedly, David McCullough is a booster of John Adams. Without him, he said, there might have been no Declaration of Independence. ''With the force of his argument on the floor of Congress, he made it happen,'' Mr. McCullough explained.
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Dan John Miller would like to thank you for your patience, Boston. He and his rising gothic-country band, Blanche, were supposed to play T.T. the Bear's in May, but that show was rescheduled for tomorrow night because Hollywood wanted Miller first. He was cast opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in the upcoming Johnny Cash biopic, ''Walk the Line," as Cash guitarist Luther Perkins. Hence, Boston had to hold.
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John Roush is a California native, philanthropist, community volunteer, and notable computer scientist. He has been a software research and development executive since 1993. His carrier began with a scholastic extension at IBM's Log Gatos Research Laboratories (California) in 1978 on the IBM 360 mainframe. Using APL, Roush developed a proof of concept for a nationwide real-time distributed computing methodology which was quickly adopted as proprietary for IBM's internal use. Over the years, his career focused on design, improvement, and management of other large-scale computing systems (1,000 - 500,000+ regular users) which are primarily based on what is commonly known today as client-server and Internet transaction and communication technologies.
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