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...more like a epilogue; everything else that follows is flashback. "Before" details the characters' lives before AIDS, of course, and "After" chronicles what happens after the disease strikes. "After After" catches the story up to the prologue--it is the dirge. The book is further sectioned into chapters with clever Flannery O'Connor-esque titles like "On Feeling New" and "How Shall We Mainly Live? Who to Mostly...
...next piece, Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (the "Haffner"), formed a striking contrast. By the clever concert arrangement, one could easily discern the differences between the two pieces and thus fully appreciate the latter, with its beautiful complexities of form, broadened musical imagination, and different instrumental voices. The orchestra conveyed these developments superbly. The symphony was named after Mozart's childhood friend Sigmund Haffner, to celebrate his elevation to the nobility. Appropriately, the first movement is full of pomp and flair, with dramatic octave leaps and running scales. The Andante is warm and almost romantic in style, though filled with...
...comment that Gates spent over $100 million to help save Apple due to simply his "good intentions" is ludicrous. The move was one of Gates' most clever. By helping to stave off the demise of Apple, Gates was preserving a market that generates each year many times more for Microsoft than what he paid. And has anyone noticed that Macs no longer ship with Netscape Navigator? That's right, the cheery Microsoft Internet Explorer icon is now the path to the Web for Mac users--many of whom bought Macs out of their hatred for Microsoft...
...record as a "real world" businessman that he claims makes him appealing as a prospective Governor. Fresh from Harvard's M.B.A. program (where he sported hair down to his shoulders), the twentysomething Checchi rose quickly through the ranks at Marriott by arranging clever financing for hotel developments at home and abroad. Hired in his 30s by the secretive Bass brothers of Texas, he helped them acquire a 25% stake in then troubled Disney, pocketing a reported $50 million for himself in the process. His work with Disney helped him befriend Hollywood heavyweights like Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz...
...because the biggest obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical. It's not smart for the U.S., which has a huge stake in world order, to be seen as resorting to a little terror of its own. Unintended consequences often flow from clever plans. Recall Pan Am 103, blown out of the sky allegedly by Libyan agents after Gaddafi almost died from Reagan's bombs...