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...Handel: Water Music John Eliot Gardiner Conducting the English Baroque Soloists (Philips). Gardiner's original-instruments essay of Handel's ebullient suite excels not only for the unerring intonation of the playing but for its irresistible rhythmic energy. King George I never heard it like this...
...interest he takes in whether these charities make a difference is intense," says Polly Courtice, co-director of his Business and the Environment Programme. And he gets stuck into the details. "If he had time he would take care of the pigs," says Wilson. What drives Charles? In an essay he wrote in 2002 he said he had "come to realize that my entire life so far has been motivated by a desire to heal - to heal the dismembered landscape and the poisoned soil; the cruelly shattered townscape, where harmony has been replaced by cacophony; to heal the divisions between...
...just did not see eye to eye with Parsons on intellectual matters. I don’t think they got along very well,” Walder said. Moore was reclusive, sharp, and demanding in the classroom. According to Skocpol, students had to write a five-page essay to gain admission to his graduate school class. She described him as a “very old-fashioned, rigorous professor, but very inspiring.” Skocpol recalled that Moore conducted class in a “Socratic-totalitarian” manner, cold-calling students and moving on abruptly...
...Refinery Crunch Matthew Yeomans' essay "Refining the Problem" [Sept. 26] argued that building more refineries may alleviate the oil shortage. But we also need to tackle problems on the demand side. Developing countries such as India and China demand vast quantities of oil, but they don't have a lot of energy-saving technology and aren't taking concrete steps to promote energy conservation. Our sources of crude oil are not everlasting. Governments must do their best to educate their people about the need to save energy. Citizens must play a part in energy conservation in their daily lives...
...than the current version. As an eminently irksome stage of the graduate school application process, the GRE merits periodic scrutiny to ensure that the examination is in fact worthwhile and well-designed. But inherent problems are certain to remain. In particular, GRE writing section grades are notoriously correlated with essay length. The Princeton Review GRE preparation book admits this trend and even advises test-takers to strategize accordingly. This ill-conceived scoring method will be counterbalanced, however, by a new policy of sending, along with scores, the writing samples themselves to graduate school admissions committees, who can evaluate their quality...