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Kissin’s performance of Robert Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp minor was much more convincing. The work was written during the white-heat inspiration of Schumann’s tumultuous courtship of the brilliant pianist, Clara Wieck, whom he would later marry. While the work does not quite reach the desperation and pathos of other Clara-obsessed compositions (such as the Fantasy in C Major), it shares many of the features of other Schumann compositions from the same time period, namely capriciousness and extremity of emotions (from the heroic Eusebius to the introspective...
...bureau is also returning to a strategy, long out of fashion at the FBI, of detaining suspects for minor infractions as a preventive measure. "If we can find them spitting on the sidewalk, we're grabbing them," says a bureau official, "and trying to hold on to them until we can figure things out...We're playing protective defense. We can't let it happen again." Attorney General Robert Kennedy used the "spitting on the sidewalk" strategy--prosecuting small-time offenses to bag big-time suspects--against the Mob. But the strategy began to disappear in the 1970s, when criminal...
...mean safe haven for a pursued student and prevent assaults from occurring, and common sense dictates that this access should be given to all students if it has not been granted already. Access to all entryways, however, is quite a different matter and can mean much more than minor theft...
Shah Mohammed says he sent out an e-mail on the day of the attacks advising Muslims not to panic, but to take minor safety precautions...
...There?s one called variola minor, which has a very low death rate, and one called variola major, which has the 30 percent death rate. Bioterrorists would most likely use the variola major strain...