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...would like to focus more education and awareness about cigars, including their origin and the true quality ones," Vega said. "I think a lot more people are smoking cigars now because it's the trendy thing...
...strings, and the terse melodic fragments delivered by the remainder of the ensemble, particularly the glockenspiel and the brass. The program notes describe the use of a principal theme and motives from both Bach chorales and Beethoven Quartets op. 135 and 74. However, these melodic fragments, regardless of their origin, sounded only as quotes, isolated from the dominant texture. What was lacking was any real sense of interaction between these two melodic worlds. The program describes the principal theme as being part of a narrative-like development. Yet such development, on a first listening, was far too subtle...
...gone when one could easily essentialize what it meant to be a man or woman, straight or gay, white or colored, when, more importantly for Spectrum, who one was became the simple matter of checking off lists in the mutually-independent categories of sex, race, sexual orientation and national origin...
...when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each discipline's interpretation of its origin. After a lively exchange of philosophies, the end result is one of measured synthesis and little surprise, as each speaker eventually acknowledges both the reality of the placebo effect and the still unknown source of its influence...
...year's candidates and 33 percent of winners were women. This constitutes a minor improvement compared with last year's council, which was 28 percent female. There was also minor improvement in the number of Asian-Americans on the Council, although the body still has few members of Hispanic origin. The council's black membership has remained relatively strong. Despite its limited success, we applaud Rawlins' campaign to further diversify the council's candidate pool...