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...Another passion of Walsh's has stirred deeper animosity. Time has learned that Walsh has in the past collected ancient Aboriginal bark coffins, complete with the bones they protected. In the 1970s he bought a demountable shed for the backyard of his outback station in western Queensland to store his collection of the rare cylinders, which he calls "assemblages." He installed climate control and a radar alarm system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector...
...organization. The MSO provided a powerful and exciting performance of a very substantial program. There were technical problems as in any live performance, but not nearly enough to mar the fantastic performance of Nora I. Bartosik ’08. Technical proficiency does not move a soul, but the passion and thoughtfulness with which the MSO executed all three pieces touched many listeners that evening...
...message to Harvard—and the rest of the world. Skip breakfast, lose a precious hour of sleep, and do something that will make a difference. The more people who show up today, the more powerful the statement will be. Make the Harvard Corporation notice students’ passion about divestment...
...have risked infection." By Thursday the decline was swift. Even as the U.S. continued its great debate over when to remove a feeding tube, the Vatican revealed the Pope was on one. Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary woman, had no choice about whether her death would be a passion play for an audience caught in an argument over when life begins and ends. The Pope, a very public and extraordinary man, made sure his message was clear: that life is God's alone to give--and to take...
...With passion, he sets forth instructions for an executive or employee trying to get ahead or even just survive. He didn't invent these precepts; Dale Carnegie, the granddaddy of self-improvement, sold more than 30 million copies of his 1936 classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People, by advocating similar behavior. But Sanders' book is a pleasing restatement of some basic principles. People who find these truths to be self-evident are likely to be the ones who need them least. "Men are the worst at this," Sanders reports. "They won't smile...