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...brings all the choirs together, many of them in their national costumes, to perform at the 8,000-seat university field house. This year there is a newly commissioned work for orchestra and a massed choir of 800 that is set to text from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The composer is William McGlaughlin, former music director of the Kansas City Symphony and host of the National Public Radio's St. Paul Sunday. "I like writing for large forces," says McGlaughlin, "and it doesn't get any larger than this...
...campaign after New Hampshire and endorsed McCain last week. Bauer is fighting Reed for supremacy among Christian conservatives, but last week he lost the battle. He wasn't popular enough to sway many votes. McCain's network of veterans tried to counter Bush's carpet bombing with a grass-roots ground campaign, but by Saturday morning, McCain knew in his bones that it was over...
...year-old male calf is playing with a long, stringy tuft of grass. He opens his mouth as if to eat it, but his trunk moves in the wrong direction, and the grass pokes him in the eye. Moss laughs. "He doesn't want to eat. He's too little," she says. "He's just practicing." After a few minutes, a 10-year-old female elephant walks toward us. She plops in front of the car and uses her trunk to hurl dust over her back. Crossing her back legs, she leans forward as if to kneel. Her tusks...
...Days after seeing the exhibit, these people in his pictures float unbidden to the surface of my mind. Hilliard has carefully created the situations in the photo, down to the pictures on the front of the cards and the empty water bottle lying in the grass. Every detail is put there to tell the story of the subject, but the final story is left to the viewer. He must interpret these details. Perhaps it is because Hilliard only works with people he knows very well, or perhaps it is because everything is so carefully staged, or maybe it is because...
...Days after seeing the exhibit, these people in his pictures float unbidden to the surface of my mind. Hilliard has carefully created the situations in the photo, down to the pictures on the front of the cards and the empty water bottle lying in the grass. Every detail is put there to tell the story of the subject, but the final story is left to the viewer. He must interpret these details. Perhaps it is because Hilliard only works with people he knows very well, or perhaps it is because everything is so carefully staged, or maybe it is because...