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...finale elicited warm applause and a few whistles of admiration before the lights were turned on for intermission. The second half of the concert began with a concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra composed in 1991 by American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Romanian violinist Irina Muresanu joined cellist Andrew Mark in this two-movement double concerto. The work was characterized by constant dissonance and a mixture of tempos and rhythms. In the more lyrical first movement, the soloists were often in unison, rather than engaged in dialogue with each other. The repetitive motifs carried through the work...
...note posted on Rosenstein’s Facebook profile. “We hope our products will become to your work life what Facebook.com is to your social life,” Rosenstein wrote in the note. Moskovitz, who founded Facebook in Feb. 2004 with his Kirkland House roommate Mark E. Zuckerberg, acknowledged the networking giant’s influence on his new venture. Although the new business will be separate from Facebook, Moskovitz wrote in a letter to his co-workers that the company will “feel like a natural extension of Facebook’s product...
...didn’t know until afterwards what the survival rate was [for his type of cancer]—it was always ‘there’s this new treatment, this great treatment, this promising treatment,’” said Mark A. Isaacson ’11, one of Friedman’s roommates. “He had this way of keeping things in perspective, putting friendships first, people first.” Though he took his studies seriously—he went to class until the day he was admitted...
...Cannon on a bench outside the Hair Design Team salon in Troy, where she was taking a smoking break between customers. It was a pleasant afternoon, and from where she sat, the green hills of northeast Missouri - Mark Twain country - rolled gently in every direction. A lifelong resident of Lincoln County, Cannon has seen those hills stitched with new roads and dotted with parking lots, but not so much that she can't still spy open fields in the distance...
...spoken at two events in Washington, and she had attended the dedication of a park bench in Laramie built for her son. She had also made time to do interviews with more reporters than she could count, all while trying to cope with her emotions at the 10-year mark of her son's murder. As usual, Judy's strength was stirring. Like many gay men of my generation - I'm six years older than Matt would have been - I see her as a powerfully maternal figure...