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...medley -- composed of show tunes and popular chestnuts -- is divided so that the three men toss the melody back and forth, each singing part of every song. There is some mild one-upmanship: Domingo sustains a high note, it seems, for several bars; Pavarotti's eloquent eyebrows start working overtime. But the songs meld seamlessly, and that is the result of cooperative effort...
Kozyrev: Atrocities have been committed by both sides, documented by U.N. observers. Still, the American media have only reported in a mild way about Muslims staging counteroffensives and provocations. There is the mirror situation in Russia, where ((one television network)) has systematically reported on the hardships suffered by Serbs because of the sanctions, never referring to why the sanctions were imposed. The truth of the matter is that there are no angels. As far as Western public opinion is concerned, Russia is seen as protecting those who are bloody butchers. When I deliver mild criticism of the Serbs here...
...President to get into a mud-slinging match and urged him not to do it again. But with battle lines sharpening in Congress and both parties jockeying into position for congressional elections, it promises to be a long, hot summer on Capitol Hill -- and anything but a mild fall on the hustings...
...when Maryland discovered that seven state officials had enrolled in a three-week summer school class at the Kennedy School--at a total taxpayer expense of more then $40,000--there was a mild public outcry...
...battle cry of "we men are oppressed echoes the louder, more vehement shriek of "we conservatives are persecuted at this liberal hell-hole." True, Harvard got a fairly mild dose of the dread Political Correctness; Harvard's administrators are, thankfully, too smart to go around censoring people still, one faction of conservative students managed to paint itself as battered, beaten-down, eternally voiceless. This powerless bunch later went on to found 57 new conservative organizations and take over the Republican Club...