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...difficult to imagine a more inflammatory book title that wouldn't result in a visit from the Secret Service. Bugliosi, a star prosecutor and author of the Manson family true-crime best-seller Helter Skelter, aims to inflame. He wants the American public to finally get furious over the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war. He certainly is, and boy does it show: his pages are chock-full of insults (Bush is "devoid of any character"), exclamations ("It's enough to make the cat cry") and italics--just so you get it! Bugliosi is well aware...
...When Manson first arrived at Harvard in 1979, she did not consider a future in music to be a “realistic possibility.” She went the premed route instead, taking many courses in chemistry and biology even as she ultimately chose a concentration in music...
...Manson said that she “would have been a happy doctor,” but that she is glad to be doing her current work. “Luckily things did work out,” she added...
Since then, Manson conducted some of the finest orchestras in the world, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stockholm’s Royal Opera, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among many others. In 1999, she became the music director of the Kansas City Symphony—one of only three women to have held such a position in a leading American symphony...
...Manson is optimistic that the difficulties women conductors faced when she was first starting out have lessened, especially in the United States, where, she said, orchestras are more willing to hire women...