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...Dole, I am your worst nightmare. I am a single working mother with a voter-registration card. LINDA ANDERSON Mill Valley, California...
...distant age of sensitive nineteenth-century guys, Franz Schubert joined the bandwagon of paesan Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and fellow German Romantics, over-analyzing every passing emotion and fluttering of the heart. Here in the twenty-song cycle of Die Schone Mullerin (The Fair Maiden of the Mill), Schubert indulges his delicate sensibilities with harmonically textured compositions set to the often silly poetry of Wilhelm Muller. Schubert wrote more than 600 of these "lieder" (songs), elevating it to a major musical art form...
...eleventh song, "Mein!", Nomura again achieved an elegant musical interpretation, belting out a powerful and untamed voice as the D major song crescendoes to the joyful exclamation that the "maid of the mill is mine!" Unfortunately such bravado and courage soon dissipated as Nomura resorted to stroking our ears with a very throaty voix mixte--not fully singing and lapsing into half tone--in the later B and E tonal musings on death and despair of "Die liebe farbe" and "Des Baches Wiegenlied...
While the Senator blustered, Louisiana-Pacific was getting ready to toss the mill overboard. Why? As a financial proposition, logging in remote, southeast Alaska is problematic because of the high cost of Alaskan labor and the expense of building logging roads. Now, with pulp prices falling, the company is facing increasing competition from mills with cheap labor and fast-growing trees...
...plays the corporate-villain role well. Charlie's sin? He owns the trees, and he'll cut them if he wants to--and does he want to. In 1986 his company, MAXXAM (1995 sales: $2.57 billion), bought Pacific Lumber, the redwoods' owner. Hurwitz visited PL's Scotia, California, mill, and told workers he believed in the golden rule: "He who has the gold, rules." Then he drained $55 million from PL's $93 million pension fund, and cranked up the timber cut to pay off his debt. A redwood 300 ft. high and 18 ft. in diameter can bring...