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...their partnership has deepened, they have felt freer to try new sounds and styles. But, says Bagge, "We're not even close to doing our best thing," which they call "the magic song." Maybe when they get it, they can celebrate with a decent meal...
Just as China is opening trade to the United States, the party of America's poor should move in the direction of freer trade with the rich of their own country. It is time for the Democratic Party to support the income tax rate reductions proposed by the Bush administration...
...teacher, a path she followed for a few years before marrying and deciding to return to school to get a Ph.D. from the University of the Philippines. When Aquino came to power, Arroyo was appointed undersecretary of trade and industry, and she remains passionate about the need for freer trade and increased foreign investment for the Philippines. Arroyo won a Senate seat in 1992 and helped write 55 laws on economic and social reform...
...this concert. The work, for solo violin, opened with extreme intervallic explorations that lead to variations that increase in intensity. As the composer wrote in the program notes, "The sets of variations at first are cast within traditional phrase-length boundaries, but as the line unfolds, these become freer and more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin seamlessly and idiomatically alternated between bowed and plucked notes). However, it may take several more hearings before I can comprehend...
This may soon become a thing of the past. As Ray Kurzweil observes in his essay (beginning on page 114), information technology may be on the verge of removing the nitty-gritty, time-wasting, reductionist noodling from the human diary, leaving us freer to indulge in what our connective brains are best at: using the information webs to run connective scenarios based on what options for change present themselves at any given time, deciding what direction we want to go in and leaving it to the reductionist programs of our machines to get on with...