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...That faith isn't shared by the loyal opposition. Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, an Energy Committee member, says, "I don't think the marketplace is working in a manner that gives consumers the assurance that they're not being manipulated. If you wait for the market to right itself, we'll be waiting for a long while before prices fall back into some reasonable line...
...tangle between the Chinese fighter jet and the U.S. spy plane demonstrates that in today's world, might is right. From the American point of view, the U.S. has the right to spy on other nations in a manner akin to standing on a public road in front of someone's house with a pair of binoculars and peeping through the windows, even though the owner is a supposed friend. The U.S. says it has the right because the road is a public road and also because it has the capability to back up its demands. Dear America, where...
...oppose [probation] because we do not find, and are of the view that a large portion of our community does not find, that the students' actions give "serious cause for concern," in terms of the motives that led to their actions or in terms of the peaceful and civil manner in which they have conducted themselves," the Faculty members wrote...
...Pietro’s “Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels” shows a large enthroned Madonna rich with religious imagery, Vivarini’s “Virgin and Child” on the other hand, depicts Virgin and Child in a much more naturalistic manner. While “the” Child in Pietro’s painting looks more like an adult filled with knowledge and wisdom, Christ in Vivarini’s painting appears naturalistic and child-like. Rather than appearing in the formalized convention of wisdom and knowledge, the child...
...promotional material, Trueba quipped that the film "wasn't approached in [an]academic manner," which manifests itself in the way he treats his musicians. Commentary remains minimal, and is generally established in no more than one or two minutes. With a general context for their past lives and current conditions, the film delves right into the music, leaving the studio performances as the true embodiments of emotion and personality. Eliane Elias expresses understated elegance with deft and shimmering touches of twinkling piano, contrasting with Puente's cheeky, overt showmanship as he, impish and seemingly carefree, works magic on the timbale...