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...also features a sparkly tiara stem that blooms into a pink flower. Maybe, in this installment, Mia Thermopolis (OMG!) matures from her experiences and blooms into a beautiful, intelligent, stately young woman (again). “Peterson’s Holiday Helper: Festive Pick-Me-Ups, Calm-Me-Downs, and Handy Hints to Keep You in Good Spirits,” by Valerie Peterson This is the perfect gift for your WASPy friends (at least if the stereotype rings true to you). It’s got tradition, with a classic holiday red, green, and white vintage-looking cover with...
...CALM BEFORE THE STORM
...movement depicted King Lear’s descent into madness, with waves of brass and timpani looming over twisting dissonances. Kravitz sang confidently, spanning large intervals with ease, and the orchestra maintained a sense of disturbed panic without drowning out the voice. The movement ended with an unexpected, troubled calm: the orchestral sound suddenly evaporated with a consonant but inconclusive chord of harmonics in the violins...
...Board, K. B. Quantson, warned: "Ghana should not delude itself that it is living well above mayhem and the deadly clashes that have unfortunately plagued Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya." The assumption that Ghana's stability will continue is "dangerous," he added, arguing that the country's relative calm is threatened by bad governance, opportunism, intolerance, impunity and corruption...
...resident of a predominantly Muslim neighborhood that was badly affected by the violence. "We saw hell here," he says. "The police shot two of our friends. One died on the spot, the other died in the hospital. They were wearing army and police uniforms. We were about to calm everyone down when they came and started firing...