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...EMERSON QUARTET Shostakovich String Quartets (DGG). Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...
...brand name or reputation." But the surest road to relaxation, it says, is to take a year off before college. It may also be a good path to admission, and will surely be interpreted that way by educators, parents and kids who are doubtless already reading between the document's lines to divine parcels of admissions wisdom. The paper advises that "time away almost never makes one a less desirable candidate." Perhaps paradoxically, it then lists a panoply of hectic-sounding pursuits to which current Harvard students devoted this down year - to be precise, 22 activities (including steel drumming, kibbutz...
...EMERSON QUARTET, SHOSTAKOVICH STRING QUARTETS: Shostakovich turned Stalin's Great Terror into art in his 15 string quartets, a laceratingly vivid document interpreted here by America's greatest quartet...
...democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende as a dire threat to its Cold War regional interests. The Clinton administration has forced the keepers of the nation's secrets to shine some light on the relationship between Washington and Pinochet, and what has emerged through four tranches of document declassification is an unflattering picture of U.S. collusion with a regime that systematically undermined the constitution of Latin America's oldest democracy, and brutalized its citizenry. And what's worth bearing in mind here is that it was, at least in part, the expectation of U.S. support that emboldened Chile...
...Supreme Court really did was ask the state Supremes on what grounds - a federal question or a state question - they based their decision. And it did so in a "per curiam" decision - no dissenting opinions, no signatures, just a seven-page document "speaking for the court" - thus avoiding not only the question of federal statute and court-versus-legislature jurisdiction, but also any perception that the highest court in the country might be split along the same lines as the rest...