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...University's approach to the consideration of complex health care costs is not comprehensive or inclusive, but remains chaotic and confused," the letter says...
...opened a card that my sister had slipped me quietly that night before going to bed. She had inscribed a quote from Theodore Roosevelt on the inside cover. Happy are those who live life to its flushed, excited, chaotic fullest, he said. To live in the shadows, to be afraid of failure, is the greatest mistake. I had only rarely done my best as a big brother, and this thought struck me hard as I began...
...texture and timbre of the piece are complex, exuberant and expressive. The clarinetist and flutist alternate between different clarinets and flutes, two percussionists play a wide range of instruments and the violinist and cellist play at times with their bows upside down. Wild, chaotic sections contrast with tame sections. The piece ends with a fitting explosion of sound which fades into silence...
...immediate cause of the problem is beyond De Beers' control: political instability in some of the planet's richest diamond regions. Although the Angolan drought made alluvial-plain diamonds easier to find, Angola's rush was triggered mainly by the chaotic aftermath of civil war. Thousands of demobilized soldiers with no job prospects began scratching around for easy money. Legislation enacted in November permitting Angolans to trade in uncut diamonds was intended to soak up rough stones that people had illegally hoarded down through the years. Instead, because the move made it vastly easier to unload illegally dug diamonds...
...call/ Hoping that there's someone free/Your life and my life, they don't touch at all/ And that's no way to be/I've never seemed so far." Immediately, a wall of guitars crashes down on Moore's serene voice and he begins to roar. After a chaotic minute, the quietude of the first part returns, and the cycle repeats itself...