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...that composers and artists return to time and again, and their new perspectives keep this familiar story fresh and relevant. I try and juxtapose the old with the new, all united by a common narrative thread,” he says. This narrative thread will link a 14th-century German carol, 17th-century English carol, and pieces by Mozart and Mendelsohn with such contemporary compositions as Jonathan Dove’s setting of “The Three Kings” and Stephen Paulus’s “Pilgrim Jesus.” The Plummer Professor of Christian...
...Lecturers and preceptors often have a heavier teaching load and thus have less time to devote to scholarship and research,” wrote Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan in an e-mail. “That doesn’t mean that they can’t be good teachers, but it can sometimes make it hard for them to be on the cutting edge of their fields,” she wrote...
...cost thousands more lives. Snow's victory over the miasmatists wasn't conceded until years after his death in 1858. Some never relented, such as London's otherwise enlightened Health Board chief, Edwin Chadwick, who went to his grave still propounding that belief in 1890 - seven years after the German scientist Robert Koch definitively identified Vibrio cholerae...
...died peacefully at Clooney's Los Angeles home earlier this month. "He got me in a lot of trouble, that pig--scared the hell out of a lot of delivery people too," an emotional Clooney said days later at the premiere of his newest film, The Good German. Clooney first bought Max for his girlfriend, actress Kelly Preston. Preston left for John Travolta; Clooney got the pig. Max, who enjoyed relaxing at his "vacation home" in Clooney's garage, struggled with his weight, and once cheated death when one of Clooney's friends accidentally ran over...
...million Price an Auto Union D-Type, a rare 1939 German race car, is expected to sell for at a February auction in Paris $100,000 Amount Adolf Hitler paid to commission the car's design...