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Just when it seemed impossible to assess the Vienna Choir Boys without adding some qualification (i.e. they were good--for little boys), they sang their finale, Mozart's Mass in C Major and forged such a herculean comeback, it was as though another choir had donned their white sailor suits during intermission. Not only did the choir boys sing the sacred prayer with everything on target--their key, their inflections, even their infusion of reverence--but the choir introduced a soloist who sent a shiver down the spine of every patron in Symphony Hall. Terence...
Temporary-staffing firms don't charge job seekers a fee; they get their money from the hiring companies. They can assess your skills to determine if you need any further training. Wahlquist recommends starting with these firms about six months before your planned retirement...
...showed he really knew the information. If I asked him to write it down, it would have been very short." This is just the kind of application Gardner envisions: because McKibben knew that Dave understood the world in a kinesthetic way, she was better able to teach him and assess his knowledge. Dave must still learn to write well, McKibben said, but what counted here was that he showed good understanding of the material...
...with the album's title track, which restates all of the questions with which she and the record embarked. "Is this desire?" she asks, then interjects "enough, enough!" as though over-whelmed by her own album's energy: Harvey needs space, in the end, to clear her thoughts and assess her position. Is desire an endpoint, or was it all along the process by which an invisible endpoint was sought--heartening but exhausting, like Harvey's songs? And what if we repunctuate: "Is this desire enough? Enough?" Here, Harvey's passion, evidenced in the album's whoops and tremblings...
...large would have answered, Who cares? None of the three versions of economic contraction registered even as blips on the national radar screen. But brace yourself: it may be time to make those painful distinctions. The consensus of TIME's Board of Economists, which convened recently in Manhattan to assess the outlook through next year, is that the issue is no longer academic. It is practical and even pressing...