Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They belong to the handful of ordinary people who not only saw the horror around them but also risked their lives out of compassion for its victims: those under Nazi rule who dared to hide Jews in their houses and apartments and on their farms. According to Samuel and Pearl Oliner, researchers from Humboldt State University in California who conducted an eight-year study of altruism, these protectors may have saved 500,000 lives...
BIZET: THE PEARL FISHERS. Carmen it isn't, but an endearing minor opera, with a crazy plot and a thrilling tenor-baritone duet. It gets a rare production from the Opera Company of Philadelphia, starring award-winning tenor Martin Thompson. March...
Some Japanese believe the anti-Japanese sentiment in America is essentially racist. Kusomoto raises the question: "Most American people don't like to admit it, but racial issues have some very deep roots," he says. "Americans are seeing our successes here as Pearl Harbor II. Only this time...
True confessions from the artist on this ravishing live recording: she was once bothered by an overly enthusiastic fan named Dick, to whom she dedicates her lake-clear version of John Fogerty's lovely, lonesome Lodi, and she is a major admirer of Minnie Pearl. Well, land's sake, this album is full of surprises. Fans might not expect this strong and graceful singer to fall about over the comic antics of the dingbat with the price tag dangling off her hat, but if there's one thing EMMYLOU HARRIS excels at, it's surprise. And, at the same time...
...work force would be considered functionally illiterate, meaning that they are unable to adequately perform in their job.) Stooping to Sakurauchi's level of discourse, Michigan Senator Donald Riegle shot back, "His attitude in slandering American workers was the same view the Japanese held the day their warplanes struck Pearl Harbor. Their arrogance was gone by 1945 when they learned the full measure of America's capability...