Word: astride
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...prefaced by the appearance of an unexpected guest: the composer himself. In an introduction to his piece, Moravec stated that one of his closest friends, a fellow composer, once said that the meaning of music was love. In this theme, the suite was commissioned in part by Astrid and John Baumgardner for their 30th wedding anniversary. It was against this more personalized atmosphere that the quartet launched into a piece that differed greatly from the first, more formal piece...
...thousands more who fled just before the U.S. invasion in 2003 - figuring they would sit out what many anticipated would be a short war - also find themselves in limbo. "As time has gone by, almost none have gone back, and people are beginning to run out of resources," says Astrid van Genderen Stort, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva...
...student-run Mexican newspaper that was shut down last month after printing cartoons and columns criticizing the university administration regained its editorial independence yesterday. “The Chancellor arranged a meeting with our old editorial board and announced his decision,” Astrid Viveros, a columnist for La Catarina of Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, said in an e-mail. “At this meeting, the Chancellor, the Provost and the Chair of Communication Science promised that the newspaper will maintain its independent [sic], autonomy, critical thought and above all our freedom of speech...
...members were told to leave immediately, Zepeza said.“When we tried to back up our files and archives, [the security guards] would turn off the computers, push the escape button, and went as far as turning off the electricity in the end,” said Astrid Viveros, a La Catarina columnist who was at the office during the incident. The staff tried to inform the student body of the events surrounding the closing of the paper, but university e-mails with the word “La Catarina” have been blocked by the administration...
...conversation with a thirtysomething Dutch couple at a restaurant in Amsterdam this summer. "I like you, and I like Americans," said the man. "But I have to tell you that my generation here in Holland is moving toward seeing the U.S. the way we saw Nazi Germany in 1944." Astrid Rosenwirth, 25, an Austrian political-science student, lived in the U.S. for four years and likes lots about the country, including a "tolerance and inclusiveness that Austria will not have achieved 20 years from now. I met the most enlightened and open-minded people there," she says. "But also...