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...fourth movement, which is one of the most passionate laments in the orchestral repertoire. The recurring pleading melody in the strings evoked a mind full of torment, leading into a diminishing melody in the cellos and basses that slowly fades away at the symphony’s close.Leon Kirchner, the composer of the world premiere “The Forbidden,” was a professor in the Harvard University Music Department from 1961 until his retirement in 1989. Now living in New York City, Kirchner composed the orchestral version of “The Forbidden?...
...Miami A Suitcase Full of Cash Testimony in the trial of Venezuelan businessman Franklin Duran revealed how officials worked to conceal the source of a suitcase filled with $800,000 intended for Argentine presidential candidate Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner. Duran allegedly attempted to silence Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, the man who was caught with the suitcase in an airport in 2007 and who has suggested that President Hugo Chvez was involved...
...began this month in Miami. The case involves a suitcase filled with $800,000 in cash that was seized at the Buenos Aires airport in the summer of 2007, allegedly being delivered on behalf of Chávez as a presidential campaign contribution to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, now Argentina's President. Chávez vehemently denies involvement in the money's shipment or in the alleged attempts by Venezuelan agents to cover it up and intimidate the U.S.-Venezuelan businessman caught transporting the suitcase...
...prosecutors say the men, at the behest of "high-level" Venezuelan government officials, cajoled and even threatened Antonini to keep mum about the real purpose of all that cash: an illegal contribution from Venezuela to the presidential campaign of then Argentine Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a Chavez ally. One of the men, Moises Maionica, pleaded guilty in January; one is at large and another - Carlos Kauffman, a close Duran pal - pleaded guilty in March, leaving Duran all but alone to face trial in Miami that began this week...
...opponents are emboldened because she is a woman.' PATRICIA VACA NARVAJA, Argentine legislator, on President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner, right, whose export-tax increase has sparked outrage and protests among the nation's farmers...