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...tradition is imprinted so deeply in European culture that, as Wolff wryly puts it, “If you’re walking down the street [in Europe] holding a violin case, no one is tempted to ask you what your day job is.” This past August marked Wolff’s return to the U.S. True to form, much of his upcoming year will be spent traveling and guest conducting for orchestras across Europe. Yet Wolff looks forward to settling back into the American music scene. “I’m hoping...
...Auburn Street. Trucks headed for the Cowperthwaite site—across the street from Mather House—will still use DeWolfe Street, according to City Manager Robert W. Healy. Residents of the Kerry Corner neighborhood, which includes Banks Street, have complained of noisy construction traffic since at least August, when several residents asked the City Council to request Harvard to reroute the trucks. Because Memorial Drive—which usually forbids construction traffic—is part of the state-managed Charles River Reservation, the University appealed to the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to allow its trucks...
...victims face to face. He was presiding at the funeral on Long Island for the daughter and son-in-law of Bangladeshi Americans from his Sterling, Va., mosque. The children, who were at work in the North Tower, perished in the Sept. 11 attack, but not until this past August had medical examiners identified enough of their charred tissue and bone fragments for the parents to hold a funeral. Staring at the two wooden boxes covered with green embroidered cloth and surrounded by grieving family members, the Muslim cleric was gripped by both sadness and rage. "The terrorists who kill...
...SENTENCED. HUANG JINGAO, 53, Communist Party whistleblower who exposed graft in local government; to life in prison on charges of taking $715,000 in bribes; in Fuzhou, China. Huang gained widespread popular support in August 2004, when the People's Daily website posted a letter from him describing corruption in Fujian province. Huang's supporters claim the conviction is part of an effort to discredit...
...British counterparts, Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration has taken a gentler line. Last year it reminded doctors that no antidepressant is approved in Australia for the treatment of depression in under-18s - though it knows many thousands of Australian teenagers with that diagnosis are on the drugs. In August, a TGA bulletin acknowledged a probable link between the SSRIs and suicidal tendencies in children and adults, but overall endorsed the drugs. Still, for perhaps the first time since the SSRIs came on the scene, those who believe the medical profession has lost its way in treating depression feel they have...