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Altom, a member of the cross-country and tennisteams and a National Merit semi-finalist at OakRidge High School, graduated with highest honorsfrom the chemistry department of the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill...
...King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, and there to introduce Clinton was Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, an authentic hero of the civil rights movement. The hours before were filled with conference calls about Russia and the impending Northwest Airlines strike, and as Clinton was riding to the chapel, he was still stitching together a speech he had started working on just before lunch, jotting down notes on a two-page draft sent from Washington overnight. (Almost nothing of that version would remain.) The words the press would focus on came from ideas rattling around in his head about...
...conductor John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique have recorded Schumann's orchestral music (Archiv Produktion; 3 CDs) using period instruments and adhering to period performance practices. The effect is analogous to the restored ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Stripped of the meddling of others (added parts, re-written transitions, etc.) and the blurred tonal qualities that large modern ensembles can create, these fervent performances reveal sculptural definition, brightness, clarity and beauty of a previously undisclosed intensity...
...just the gentle rocking of the chants. Participating at services is not required, and if those on retreat spend their entire time sequestered behind closed doors or meditatively walking the often expansive acreage, the monks bless that too. "People come here and think they're supposed to sit in chapel all the time," says Brother John Thomas, a monk at Holy Cross Monastery in New York's Hudson River valley. "You're trying too hard; that's spiritual constipation. God is bigger than that." For people who remember religion as based on threats or guilt, the freedom can lead...
...usual, and for good reason, the Edwards-Faircloth contest is being cast as a battle between rural conservatives and a new North Carolina, the one centered on Charlotte, the state's thriving financial center, and booming Research Triangle Park, a high-tech enclave that encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill...