British jazz fans won't need much reminding that Friday 9 November is launch night for the 2012 London jazz festival, and I'll be devoting next month's column to a preview of a typically wide-ranging programme that includes Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Brad Mehldau, Esperanza Spalding, Bill Frisell, Kenny Wheeler and too many more to count.
Working only at night, they devoted a month to digging a shaft more than thirty yards long, which surfaced in a nondescript four-story house at 62 Zimmerstrasse, about fifty feet behind the eastern side of the wall.
Through the state-controlled press and television, the government devoted a month to "social consultations" with the public, arguing the need for higher prices to ease the burden on the state budget caused by massive food subsidies and to bring prices in line with production costs.
Both People's Daily – the official Communist party newspaper – and a state television channel devoted coverage last month to former leader Li Lanqing's search for the sheet music to Moonlight and Shadows, from a Dorothy Lamour film.
National Review, the conservative magazine that devoted an issue last month to anti-Trump arguments, attacked Ms. Brewer in 2013 as "exemplifying that unfortunately common strain of Republican leadership that is uncompromising in rhetoric but opportunistic in reality". It's a sentence that could easily have been written about Mr. Trump.
"The bible of health policy" (Health Affairs) devotes this month's publication to the "New Era of Patient Engagement".
The Academies' report found that people caring for elderly family members devote 253 hours a month to caregiving — almost the equivalent of two full-time jobs.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is devoting its programming this month to "Musical Evolutions," a series of concerts and lectures that explore the changes in musical style that occurred between 1887 and 1920.
Le Poisson Rouge, a new club on the site of the old Village Gate on Bleecker Street, opened on Sunday and is devoting much of this month to the JVC Jazz Festival.
Governor Whitman offered new hope to those working to slow suburban sprawl by devoting much of her inaugural address last month to their concerns.
