Word: ah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conductor and soloist were once again equal partners in Webern's version of "Ihr Bild." The orchestra played movingly and, for the great climax, Baer puffed out his cheeks, stuck out his neck and sounded totally despondent as he attacked the last two lines: translated from the German, "And ah, I cannot believe/That I have lost...
...Ah yes, once again, we embark on the frigate of the new semester, this magical time of discovery and rebirth and, of course, the sweet, sweet cursing of first-years lotteried out of Core classes. Yes, the upperclass students bask in the glow of their years until the unfortunate announcement of (dear God, must we go on) a random lottery...
...Saturday night? Ah, what a difference a day makes...
...Dole. At one point in his quest for the presidency, the Republican candidate told a crowd that as the head of the Red Cross, wife Elizabeth had seen many natural disasters, "and I'm not including my campaign in that." Ah, but there was a calamity at every turn. There was his stubborn insistence that tobacco was not necessarily addictive. There was the premature release of his concession speech on Election Night. And, of course, there was the symbol of his campaign, the Chico--as in California, not Marx--pratfall. On the very same day that Dole landed...
Fifty years is a long time to obstruct justice. The Swiss are worried about their world image? Ah yes, this is the benign country of chocolate, precision timepieces, army knives, downhill skiing, Heidi and William Tell. Hogwash! The Swiss are the people who do business with and protect organized crime, petty dictators, drug dealers and, simply, fiscal terrorists. If the people in power really wanted to do the right thing, it would be easy. The consortium of banks and government would allocate a certain sum of money (far less than the $7 billion figure you mentioned, of course...