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DIED. DAVID DIAMOND, 89, brilliant, prolific, notoriously cranky American composer of 11 symphonies, 10 string quartets and numerous concertos, ballets and film scores; of congestive heart failure; in Rochester, N.Y. With his elegant, rhythmically dense pieces and his open disdain for more popular, experimental styles ("I hated all that avant-garde stuff!"), his work was alternately exalted, by such fans as Leonard Bernstein and George Szell, and neglected over a seven-decade career...
...China. So much so, that the idea of "not wanting to offend the Chinese" (whatever that means) is routinely heard in private among business leaders and those with privileged access to Beijing's facilitators. Of course, peddling the notion of a China whose feelings are fragile is a brilliant negotiating tactic. Why fault the Chinese for trying it on? But such spinelessness debases Australia, its traditions and its pride in speaking truth to big powers. Australia loses face when its leaders fail to robustly denounce human-rights abuses or to show a semblance of support for an individual such...
...smartest-written "superheroes" ever created. Twice the size of an average man, with a rock-like epidermis, extraordinary strength, endurance and heightened senses, Concrete has all the attributes of a classic do-gooder. But here is where it starts to get interesting. Neither a troubled billionaire nor a brilliant scientist caught in an experiment gone wrong, Concrete has a secret past as Ronald Lithgow, a senatorial speechwriter. Captured by aliens while taking a remote mountain hike, he escaped, but only after having his brain transferred to a fantastical new body. Under the cover of being an experimental, government cyborg named...
...concordances between the collegiate career of the young speedster and the brilliant oeuvre of the aging rocker are too striking to ignore...
...brilliant speed and impeccable field vision led the Crimson to its first Ivy title since 1991 and an automatic birth in the NCAA tournament, as well as earning her the title of Ivy Player of the Year, Harvard’s first since...