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...concert opened with the brief “Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which Mendelssohn composed at the tender age of 17. The opening string passages sparkled and the HRO brass played the fanfare-like figures with unusual crispness. There were times in the piece when the playing of the low strings felt slightly heavy, but fortunately, those moments were only fleeting...
...Nunn, now 68, left the Senate more than a decade ago and has been largely absent from the Washington scene since. But he returned a couple of weeks ago to brief his former colleagues on the progress the U.S. and Russia have been making on ridding the world of old, obsolete and unneeded nuclear warheads - a project Nunn conceived at the end of the Cold War with Indiana republican Richard Lugar and has in many ways become his life's work. Since then, the Nunn-Lugar program has dismantled and destroyed more nuclear weapons than are in the combined arsenals...
...rusty warning mechanisms both nations once kept well-polished and oiled in case of an accidental nuclear launch. Nunn worries that the short time between a launch of a nuclear device from a submarine and its impact - a time span Nunn said was classified but estimated might be as brief as 5 or 10 minutes - might all but guarantee a nuclear exchange. Nunn told the Senators that both Washington and Moscow should work to jointly take their nuclear arsenals off what he called the hair trigger alert. "There is no need, 15 year after the Cold War, [for] both nations...
...progress and optimism. Although Modernism was meant as a break from colonial architecture, it implicitly bought into European aesthetic values and alienated the public for which the buildings and monuments were built, something apparent in the lack of public engagement that Adjaye’s photographs depict.After a brief written and cartographic orientation come the positively disorienting photographs. The organization of the photographs into four categories—“Cityscape,” “Civic City,” “Commercial City,” and “Residential?...
...revelation that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's brief stay in a Virginia psychiatric facility did not prevent him from legally buying handguns has prompted outrage from gun control advocates. But at a time when any real gun control legislation is close to a political impossibility, even some Second Amendment activists agree that the criteria used to deem someone mentally unfit to purchase a firearm may need to be reformed...