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...tanks rumbled into Ramallah as dawn broke and thunder rolled on Good Friday. Yasser Arafat knew they were coming after him. Barricaded in a windowless two-room office, he could only sit and rant as much of the Israeli force entering Ramallah--100 armored personnel carriers, 60 tanks and 2,500 soldiers--encircled his compound, their gun barrels swinging into position for a vengeful assault. Arafat worked the phones, dialing diplomats around the world, beseeching them for help. Sources inside Arafat's office told TIME that Arafat warned of a bloody battle between his forces and the Israeli army, hoping...
...That's what I'd say if I were them," counters Dawn Hudson, Pepsi's senior vice president of strategy and marketing. Beneath Coke's outward calm, executives are seething over the NFL loss. The last thing the company wanted was a high-profile setback while Pepsi was gaining share. Even Dunn concedes that he fought until the end to keep the sponsorship. What carried the day for Pepsi, some say, wasn't just money but an aggressive promotional plan, the kind that takes months to design. Caught off guard by Pepsi's gambit, Coke simply didn1t have time...
...Beaten Path (virtualtourist.com) TRIP TIPS Planning a hike to Sri Lanka's World's End? Make sure you leave early enough to catch a view from the 700-m cliffs plunging to the plains below. The clouds roll in just after dawn, obscuring any chance for a vista. This and other helpful tourist tips-and traps-can be found on this database of tales contributed by travelers from around the world...
Olivier Messiaen’s Réveil des Oiseaux (Awakening of the Birds) is, curiously enough, precisely what its title says. It is not some symbolic interpretation of the dawn of spring or the rebirth of nature. Instead, the listener is provided with a list of the names of 38 different birds in five different languages, beginning of course with the original French. The music imitates the different calls of all these birds in succession, with limited variation of the calls infused into the piano solo...
Messiaen, who began collecting birdsong when he was 15, dedicated the music to “the blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales, orioles, robins, warblers, and all the birds of our forests.” The birds awake in stages, beginning with Midnight, through the Dawn Chorus and ending at Noon. The music begins with the lone nightingale represented by a succession of octaves on the solo piano. A duet of nightingales soon follows. The orchestra does not play a large role in the piece, and when it does enter the forest of birds it serves as an indicator of the timbre...