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Nearly as important as the poems themselves is the music by Oliver Messiaen. Written while a Nazi prisoner of war, Messiaen's "Quatuor pour lafin" is highly discordant and provocative. Sullivan alternates the poems' natural divisions with those in the music, imposing lengthy pauses, perhaps for speculation. The four musicians, Yoon-Sun Lee on piano, John Montgomery on clarinet, Alan Gilbert on violin and Ruth Maurice on cello are all first rate, contributing to a carefully crafted and entertaining production...
...Stricker] really dominated the race," Sheehan said. "She didn't pour it on. She really enjoyed...
These reforms, together with the ad placed in South African newspapers, would surely be sufficient. But corporate charity continues to pour forth; the signatories of the Sullivan principles have spent over $130 million since 1978 on "health, education, community development, training, and housing for blacks and other non-whites in South Africa." That amounts to over $120,000 per company per year. I hope that these bleeding-heart corporations aren't operating at a loss as a result...
Oddly, found four nice men. Thomas Minter, John Wesley, Ken Papaj, Albert Ozimek. Almost afraid to ask. What about Debt? They described an entire floor of computers hooked up to the nationwide Federal Reserve banking system. Millions of figures pour in each day. Yes, yes, but did they have the Debt captured and subdued on paper? Smiles all around. Of course, they answered...
Tales of the oddities, cruelties and bizarre twists that occurred began to pour forth after the return to the U.S. of the last 39 hostages. Some stories were horrific, some implausible, others surreal. There were accounts of the hijackers turning away from stark brutality to administer kindnesses to passengers: fetching a blanket for a young girl with bronchitis, providing cough drops for a passenger with cold symptoms. One terrorist, it was recalled, proposed marriage to the flight's purser; at another point, a hijacker beat a passenger, threatened to shoot him, then apologized and wept with his victim. Passengers became...