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...weeks ago, from halfway across the world, came a situation that made me question my faith in the leadership of America and the principles for which this country stands. Although I have always tried to avoid naively accepting the statements of leaders as truth, I will admit that I have always put a lot of faith in the people who lead. The leaders who had assumed the role of the political prophets from my childhood, however, had nothing to say. No one was creating direction. President Clinton vacillated between bellicose threats of NATO air-strikes, as the United Nations shrank...
...sexual experience and longing into music. "My mom asks me, 'Why do y'all sing about so much sex?'" says Jodeci's Dalvin (all the group's members go by their first name or nickname), whose father is a church pastor. "I tell her, 'Mom, we can't go halfway. We ain't no fake group. It has to be real...
...fact, it was during a lock-out before my third Justice section during which I realized that my stair-phobia had to end immediately. I looked around the empty Sever Quad, and began to crutch up the six main stairs. Mental power and coordination failing about halfway through, I fell forward on my face...
...grandson of first-generation Japanese-American farmers -- who, along with his parents, were interned during World War II -- Nagano grew up on a 500-acre artichoke farm on the West Coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He studied conducting at San Francisco State University and sang with the San Francisco Opera chorus before joining Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston as an apprentice conductor. Returning to the Bay Area in 1979, he won a reputation by leading the small Berkeley Promenade Orchestra (now the Berkeley Symphony) in such unlikely concert-opera ventures as Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina...
...ride is halfway done, so I'm tryingto savor as much as I can for as long as I can.For you, the ride is just beginning, and the bestpart of it is the beginning...