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...answer was given by the Security Council: You must be a UN organ; you report to this Council, the whole Council, not individual members. Build up your organization as a UN organization. Recruit people on a broad geographical basis. Competence comes first, but a broad geographical recruitment comes second. This is what we have done...
...some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones in half and allowing rats to eat through their internal organs. The Cheka later evolved into the infamous KGB, a similarly murderous, clandestine security organ that would paralyze the Soviet people with fear for decades...
...pitfalls of a work like Winterreise is that too often it is performed as a single, unrelenting lament. The singer is so tortured that by the end, his meeting with a stone-faced organ grinder does not have nearly the chilling impact that it should. And while this work is all about excessive emotions, an excessive display can hurt its credibility. Van Dam never overplayed the Werther-like persona of the narrator. He avoided the indulgent self-pity that lends itself easily to the work. The cycle as a whole, while overwhelmingly dark, has moments of repose, fragmentary glimpses...
...band live is truly a privilege. The group’s talents are nothing short of amazing individually and as a whole. Organ player Neal Evans, who sat at the Hammond B-3, complete with revolving speaker, would routinely take solos on the upper register keys while holding down a completely independent bass line with his left hand. He has perfected the art of playing both parts simultaneously to the point that there is no bassist in the group and no need...
Scientists also hope to use the genome sequence to find out more about the parasite's metabolism. The parasite has a special organ that is not present in humans, and which may yield new targets for drug treatment...