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...sadder about the separation than Ross, whose enthusiasm for music as music suffuses the book. His obvious affection for all those composers that posterity forgot leads him occasionally to bite off a larger chunk than his readership can chew (the “Invisible Men” chapter in particular feels overstuffed), but for the most part he makes now-peripheral figures like Franz Lehár and Roy Harris feel as relevant as Dmitri Shostakovich and Aaron Copland—or even Bob Dylan and Bo Diddley.According to the Observer, Ross didn’t hear his first Dylan...
Green Crusaders I am glad that TIME covers the many people taking on global environmental challenges and China's in particular [Oct. 29]. In a country going wild for development at all costs, some unsung heroes are fighting tough battles that help slow China's environmental degradation. They need sustained help from influential media to push their cause ahead. In addition to Shi Zhengrong's solar energy, another story is worth TIME's coverage: Ni Jie and his company Luyuan Electric Vehicle are producing about 300,000 electric bicycles a year to provide Chinese consumers with an affordable, less polluting...
...benefits from his position as an outsider. Many ANC supporters are unhappy with what they claim is the government's pursuit of economic growth over equality: millions of South Africans still live in the same tin-roof townships to which they were confined under apartheid. A target of particular outrage has been the emergence of a moneyed black lite around the party leadership--people like Sexwale and Ramaphosa...
...Phantom of the Opera" because of his tendency to show up only at the Bayreuth opera festival, while preferring to avoid muddying his boots at the annual pig farmers' convention in Schleswig-Holstein. But Sauer clearly has a soft spot for some events on his wife's schedule - in particular, those that involve rubbing shoulders with the Bushes, according to Merkel biographer Gerd Langguth. His natural reserve notwithstanding, the scientist has made a point of greeting the U.S. First Couple during their earlier visits to Europe. And his views of the U.S. are said to have influenced his wife...
...states that competed for preeminence and hegemony. Some even dreamt of empire on the continent, based on race, ideology, glory, or all of the above. They all failed. Political cartography became a popular art: Maps were redrawn endlessly following every war. Those borders were key to separating communities with particular languages, religions, and cultures...