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...passionately spiritual music of the late Olivier Messiaen, Nagano sent the French composer a tape -- and got back a detailed written critique, enumerating what he had done right and wrong. The correspondence eventually led to Messiaen's arrival in Berkeley for a performance of The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to Nagano's participation in the 1983 world premiere in Paris of Messiaen's radiant opera St. Francis of Assisi. Eight years later, he led the controversial world premiere of composer John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer in Brussels...
...Harvard, my religious devotion some-howbegan to slip away. Once, Id' sung soprano inSingapore's Wesley Methodist Church and felt Godwas listening when I sang my favorite hymn,"Surely The Presence of the Lord is in ThisPlace." Darwin had always given me something tothink about, though, and taking E.O. Wilson'sclass on evolutionary biology my first semesterinadvertently gave me greater pause. And inChaucer section, discussing the socialmachinations of the Church in the Middle Ages onlyfanned the fires of doubt. There was more to itthan that, of course, but certainly I was growingdiscouraged. Going to services at Harvard-Epworth,the only...
...Copley, you'll find the grand departmentstores Saks, Lord and Taylor and Nieman Marcus...
...places. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials have long felt, however, that Gilberto's intelligence has been overrated. Believed to be the leader of the powerful Cali cocaine cartel, Gilberto, who says he is merely an honest drugstore magnate, has never been able to explain why the Medell?n drug lord Pablo Escobar-now deceased-was always trying to kill him. In any case, "the Chess Player," as Gilberto is known, miscalculated on his final move, failing to negotiate the terms of his surrender with the Colombian government. Last Friday he was arrested in a surprise raid on a Cali house...
...prayed to God and asked him for a lot of things, and he delivered throughout the entire time," O'Grady told TIME in an interview after he had returned to the Aviano Air Base in Italy. "When I prayed for rain, he gave me rain. One time I prayed, Lord, let me at least have someone know I'm alive and maybe come rescue me. And guess what? That night T.O. [fellow F-16 pilot Thomas O. Hanford] came up on the radio." At that moment, O'Grady knew his ordeal was coming...