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...also a story about love. The muted sound of the overture’s opening in the clarinet melody evoked a prayer-like feeling. However, the performance failed to build on this. At times, Sakir was able to lift the brass line above the lush strokes of two-note slurs in the strings for a regal effect. But the musical lines frequently stopped before the end of the phrases, and, despite the music’s religious undertones, the delivery lacked fervor. Even during the piece’s most climactic moments, the orchestra’s sound felt flat...
...leaving the social networking Web site to found a new Internet company with fellow Facebook engineer Justin Rosenstein. The new company will develop “an extensible enterprise productivity suite, along with a high-level open-source software development toolkit,” according to a 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...
...ended on the same sustained note of fortitude that moved the Republican National Convention five weeks ago: "Don't give up hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight. Fight for a new direction for our country. Fight for what's right for America," and so on through a rousing finish...
...fillip of hope was exactly what leaders attending the euro group summit had hoped to inspire, but they were careful to note it was only a beginning. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, for example, stressed the collective package "isn't of an immediate miracle", and many more trials and jittery nerves would have to be overcome before the nightmare of the past months would be over. Still, the mere framework of a strategy proved sufficient to calm the fear that that drove last week's panic-driven sell...
...that would cause the U.S. dollar to plunge in value, eroding China's huge dollar holdings. Besides, China is still earning billions a day through its exports and "has to do something with the money," says one senior Beijing economist who asked not to be named. He and others note that a sudden move into the euro is highly unlikely with European economies looking weak and exchange rate losses threatening...