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...people say I might have lost my mind over there," Stone said with a grin. "But I think the act of birth is violent, a lot of blood, screaming, light hits your eyes, and they grab you with forceps, in my case...
...that it matters too much, since new commissions are flooding in. "I don't write music to grab a large audience, though I'm pleased that I do," the composer says. "But success doesn't exactly help you confront that terrible blank page. When I sit down to write a piece of music, it's still the same old Michael Nyman, excited and terrified at the same time." His listeners are happy to go along for the ride...
...half-century ago. Bosnian army units, some with barely 100 men, began ambushing Serb forces at 16 different locations around the country. Instead of the frontal assaults that foundered against the Serbs' superior firepower, says U.N. spokesman Paul Risley in Zagreb, the Bosnians "are employing commando tactics to grab territory." The breadth of the government offensive has exposed how thin the Serb defenses are: reinforcements dispatched to the Bihac region came from Kupres, for example, leaving it largely undefended...
...Redfern as "one of those sturdy old plants left over from the Edwardian wilderness that can't understand why the sun isn't shining anymore." When Slaughter strides on stage in Redfern's proper Burberry-ish getup, we see that Jimmy could't be more accurate. And Redfern's grab, impeccable down to the polished black shoes, makes Alison, Jimmy, and Cliff's miserable fallen hems and moth-holes all the more noticeable...
...also worries that if enough students grab their $20 back, the council will be bankrupt. A council bankruptcy created by the active participation of students strikes us as the smooth functioning of democracy. Even if only one in 10 students sent their fee in happily, the council would still have about $13,000 to play with. If you're only catering to one-tenth of the campus, we think that's plenty. If you happen to disappear, it's only because the whole student body wants...