Word: mountains
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Stewart Kagan '80, head of classical programming, echoes Falk in defending the originality of selections played on the station. "We avoid playing the classical 'warhorses' of WCRB--the popular classical music station." Beethoven's Fifth, Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet" and Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain" all qualify as warhorses, says Kagan...
...speech in the plaza before the festivities, Giscard sounded more like a modern politician soliciting votes than a feudal Prince seeking tribute. He held out the promise of a new French-and Andorran-financed highway to be cut through the mountain passes between the two countries. He also spoke earnestly, though vaguely, of the need to "create conditions for more effective management and responsible participation of the Andorran people in the affairs of their country." That raised hopes among Andorrans that their co-Princes may ultimately be willing to grant them more self-rule. Andorrans point with pride...
...bill as it now reads hides policy issues under a mountain of paper. Criminal code reform will remain a parody of lawmaking until legislators can devise a bill that they fully understand...
Located atop a parched, rocky mountain some 40 miles south of Tucson, Ariz., the squat, rectangular building with the gaping hole in its sides and roof looks like a space-age barn. In fact, the strange structure is somewhat out of this world. Now in its final stage of testing, it is the prototype of a new generation of giant optical telescopes that could open fresh vistas on the heavens - and, by astronomy's standards, at bargain-basement prices...
MARRIED. James Earl Ray, 50, Martin Luther King Jr.'s convicted assassin, who is serving a 99-year jail term; and Anna Sandhu, 31, freelance courtroom artist; he for the first time, she for the second time; in Brushy Mountain state prison, at Petros, Tenn. Tennessee does not permit conjugal visits, a situation Sandhu described as "terrible...