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Perversely, music played an important role in the Nazi concentration camps. Loudspeakers blared Schubert, Wagner and march music, while, less officially, prisoners smuggled in instruments and put on private musicales. In "model" camps such as Theresienstadt (Terezin) in Bohemia, the inmates were even encouraged to perform for visiting Red Cross workers to show that they were being treated humanely. The late French composer Olivier Messiaen wrote one of this century's most illuminating chamber works, the Quartet for the End of Time, while incarcerated in a Silesian camp. Messiaen survived. But for most victims time was something that indeed came...
...released as soon as possible from the prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where she has been studying for a high school-equivalency diploma. An expected favorable ruling by the judge, perhaps this week, would allow Helmsley to rejoin her ailing billionaire husband Harry and travel, presumably by limousine, to perform 750 hours of community service as a playroom assistant or clerk at a nearby health center...
...protest of the omission of any Asian American representation upon the three panel discussions, nor did he ever acknowledge the wrong and offer an apology. Secondly, when AAA (along with Harvard Foundations, E4A, and the Office for the Arts) invited Lane Nishikawa--a prominent Japanese American actor/writer/director--to perform at Harvard, Dean Epps deeply offended Nishikawa with a racially insensitive remark...
...unity, effectiveness, and morale." If McGuire and others who share his views truly believe that these compromises would occur if homosexuals were officially accepted by the military, then it is they who are actually compromising the military's effectiveness. They do so by implying that professional soldiers, sworn to perform their duties and uphold the military's high standards of conduct, would be dissuaded from doing so because of the sexual tensions that would be introduced by the open presence of homosexuals in military units...
...such dangerous changes whenever they occur. "DNA testing as we know it now is not cost efficient," says Dr. Funmi Olopade, professor of oncology at the University of Chicago. "But the way technology is moving, 10 years from now this will no longer be such an exorbitant test to perform...