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...monks also played large drums held vertically by red handles, their mallets curved in the manner of bows. The use of instruments, beautiful in its own right, served to highlight the monks’ richly developed vocal ability, while the occasional chanting of mantras quickened the pace from that of the dominant seven-beat liturgical texts...
...vampire drains blood from its victim. That act has a predatory intimacy. The contact of fangs on neck is erotic - a deep, dirty first kiss, and the prelude to fatal sexual enslavement. Hannibal Rising isn't nearly that much fun. It doesn't, in the manner of its hero, take a bite out of you. The movie is more like a blood drive where you go to donate your pint and nobody takes the needle out and you're strapped to the gurney unable to do anything but watch your life drip away. It's that kind of movie: enervating...
...million in 2005. "It is not a humanitarian crisis," a senior Administration official said in a briefing last week. "There's a difficult economic situation in some places, even more acute than others. But overall, I think that the international community has been able to distribute assistance in the manner in which it said it would about a year ago." Still, some private aid groups question the complicated mechanism's effectiveness, claiming that it costs more money and takes more time to get the much-needed aid to the Territories...
Cleaning up British politics--and getting Labour finances, still in a parlous condition, back on track--will be a problem for the next Prime Minister. Blair's challenge is to seize back control over the manner and timing of his departure. It won't be easy. The investigation trundles on, although detectives appear to have shifted their focus from the original accusations of corruption toward the possibility that some of those questioned may have deceived investigators. (World-weary Washingtonians may now recite that old mantra: "It's never the crime. It's the cover-up.") Blair is determined...
...STYLES AND INTENTIONS“There’s certainly a very high concentration of talent [here,]” says Jeff S. Nagy ’07.Nagy, a former poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate, is a curious poet. Belying his bespectacled and bookish appearance is his insistent manner and his forceful stand on the role of his art.“Poetry can enrich our speech,” he explains. “It’s a very simple statement, but it’s true. Literature is innovative and not just imitative...