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...have filed 58 amici curiae, or "friend of the court" briefs--the greatest number of such briefs ever submitted for a Supreme Court case, and indicative of the complexity and importance of the suit. Amici curiae briefs provide "third parties" with an interest in the case an opportunity to express their particular viewpoints...
Peter Vellucci, the mayor's son and campaign manager for the upcoming municipal elections in November, said yesterday he would not comment on the allegations until after his father released a statement. He added that several of his father's supporters called him to express support but "a couple of hecklers have called." He also said "it was sad the way it came...
...First, he must master the numberless muscular pressures which in every position on every string will produce every quality of sound. Then, having learned the phonetics of his language, he must put them together to convey a message, and to do this must have a fullness in himself to express before the composer's fullness finds a response. Lastly he needs an understanding of the composer's style, a corrective to the urge to express himself rather than the music. Thus, he puts all his equipment, his skill, the raw material of his whole life at the service of another...
...cannot speak the native tongue." According to Rosen, self-help and sex books, instant therapies and self-improvement courses like est purvey psychobabble in pure form. The problem is not just that psychological ideas dominate national conversation, but that psychobabble is a deadened tongue with no words to express "the paradoxes of emotional life." At least that's what Rosen is into, where his head is at, the feeling he's going with, and it's, like, you know, warm, I mean real beautiful...
...motives and develop descriptive categories of the unchurched. The results, just published in a 99-page booklet, are impressionistic but provocative. The tiniest group identified is what Hale calls the True Unbelievers-agnostics, humanists and atheists-most of whom turn out to be only latent unbelievers who often express a certain longing for faith. By far the largest group is the Publicans, named after Jesus' story in Luke 18 about the prayers of the Pharisee and the Publican. Whether they themselves are humble or self-righteous, Hale's latter-day Publicans scorn what they regard as the self...