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...year-old guest conductor Michael Sakir planted his feet on the podium, the orchestra jumped into a frenzied arpeggio followed by several cymbal crashes. With the boisterous opening of the prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin,” the strings were quickly overpowered by the brass line—though not enough to hide the fact that the violins were out of tune. Despite the unbalanced opening, the swashbuckling theme was well articulated by the brass section for a clean end. Like his “Lohengrin,” Wagner?...
...country's current harsh view of the Bush Administration and Republicans in Congress, McCain could be doing far worse. Counted out for much of the summer, the campaign operation, under the leadership of Steve Schmidt, has managed to run consistently ahead of the Republican brand. The campaign's top brass, meanwhile, remains unapologetic about its risk-taking approach and undaunted by the odds. "We would have packed up the tent four months ago if we didn't like daunting challenges," says Mike Duhaime, the campaign's ground-operations chief. McCain, as well, has been unapologetic about the moves his campaign...
...aprons bent over them, hard at work on mysterious old-timey tasks,” Jacoby says. The view from inside isn’t much different. The space smells like oil and metal, the walls are plastered with old printing projects, and the back room is brimming with brass photo plates, linocuts, and lead type in dozens of fonts, styles, and point-sizes. You want a wood-carved stamp for “The World According to Garp?” Sure, they’ve got that. (Somewhere.) The place, of course, is The Bow & Arrow Press...
...There is stability in Indonesia - and unlike in China or Vietnam, it isn't a side benefit of authoritarianism. Although S.B.Y. was reared in a brass-knuckles military environment, he has proven to be a capable civil administrator who's willing to delegate responsibility to technocrats within his administration. Meanwhile, he has started to deliver on the antigraft vows that got him elected. This month, a top prosecutor with the attorney general's office was sentenced to two decades in prison for accepting bribes. Even members of S.B.Y.'s inner circle are under scrutiny: two of his Cabinet members...
...latest polls, just 21% of Germans now say they would vote for the party of Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt if an election were held tomorrow (compared to 37% for Merkel's CDU and 14% for Die Linke). For the past twelve months, the party's top brass had tried to stem those losses by moving the party's policies to the left...