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...Like a rendezvous with old friends, cellist Gavriel Lipkind and pianist Claudia Schellenberger effortlessly connected through the musical phrases of composers who were diverse in background and style. Ultimately, the palpable bond between the two well-known German performers made the concert exceptional...
...Committee members said they thought the need to modify Cambridge’s Controlled Choice Plan, designed to consider socioeconomic background when assigning students to kindergarten, reflected a renewed—and encouraging—commitment to public schools on the part of the city’s families...
...don’t expect anyone to have the background of the inscribed audience,” he adds...
...life has a particular political or ideological purpose, how can we exclude her writer’s journey from the realm of “literature”? Moreover, given that all individuals are raised in a particular socio-political and ideological climate and have unique relationships with that background, literature will always be influenced by these factors and therefore is necessarily ideological.Even Gao’s “rejection of ideology” seems to be a political philosophy formed in reaction to the Chinese Communist Party and subsequent democratic movements.Gao’s thesis would...
...cuts voted to extend them. The apostate who counted the Rev. Jerry Falwell among the "agents of intolerance" seven years ago delivered the commencement speech at Falwell's Liberty University last May. Ask the candidate what his message is this time around, and he tells TIME, "Experience, background, record and vision. Who is best capable to address the challenge of the 21st century, which is the threat of radical Islamic fundamentalism?" But what about reform? These days McCain has to be prompted on that one, which he lumps into "all of those things...