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...This “modest little series,” as Coriel calls it, is designed for anyone—with or without a musical background—who wants to better understand the function of the various elements of a song. Although the first class included a fair number of aspiring student lyricists, the focus of the course will be on listening, rather than on writing.“Once you have an understanding of what goes into making these songs and how they reveal themselves, you get more out of it,” says Coriel...
...Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” It is a fitting borrowing in a number of ways—both books use the time span of four key days to piece together the meaning of family through four different points of view; both extensively utilize stream-of-consciousness style in order to do so; and both feature sons with mental retardation that gives way to a type of clairvoyance. Phillips gives...
...courtship of Senator Olympia Snowe started in December with a phone call from Joe Biden. The Vice President-elect made sure Snowe had his home telephone number in Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic stimulus package should work. "I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when her party controlled the White House. "Now somebody was listening...
...case for his rebellion, framing it as opposition to Kinshasa's cooperation with the génocidaires of the FDLR and offering a moving history of the persecution of the Tutsi. But like many militia leaders, Nkunda and his men have been accused of war crimes. I met a number of child soldiers who served in his militias, and his soldiers have been accused of participating in massacres in the villages of Bukavu and Kiwanga. (See pictures of Congo's child soldiers...
...Underscoring Pakistan's intention to try the suspects, Malik announced that a criminal report had been registered and read its reference number. The Pakistani government is also making a cross-border appeal for further help before beginning prosecutions. A list of 30 questions has been forwarded to New Delhi, including a request for DNA samples of the 10 gunmen, details of their intercepted conversations with handlers in Pakistan and information on a possible Indian connection. There was also a suggestion by Pakistani officials that the two fugitive handlers could be in India...