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...Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press; 723 pages; $39.95) is Rosen's demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only his experience as an extraordinary pianist, but also his considerable grasp of such disciplines as art history, philosophy, literature and linguistics. The result is an elegant and altogether irresistible study that is destined to endure, along with an earlier, seminal work of Rosen's, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven...
Containment of such a bully must begin early in its career. That means building relations with China's neighbors, starting with Vietnam. For all the emotion surrounding our decision to normalize relations with Vietnam, its significance is coldly geopolitical: Vietnam is China's traditional enemy (they fought a brief war in 1979). We must therefore make it our friend...
...brief interview at the picnic yesterday,Rudenstine discussed his month overseas...
...last December Magaw rehired the men. ATF had discharged them two months earlier, after both had spent nearly a year on administrative leave at full pay. The settlements granted the men full back pay for the brief period of their formal terminations, expunged their records of all disciplinary action, and restored their past salaries and their eligibility for law-enforcement pensions. It did, however, strip them of their official status as federal investigators empowered to carry guns and enforce federal law. Magaw says he took into account the men's long years of service and his opinion that their performance...
...dramatic stock sell-offdrove the Dow Jones downby more than 130 points today in the most precipitous plunge in almost four years. While the index recovered to a more moderate drop of 57 points by the end of trading, Wall Street watchers feared that today's brief stampede, coming on top of a 50-point retreat yesterday, may indicate that the bulls are losing confidence. Triggered by a sell-off in technology stocks, trading hit the Nasdaq composite index proportionately harder, pushing it down 38 points. Today's drop followed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's upbeat economic report...