Word: ranke
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...ideas, even if imperfectly executed, are good. Freeing wonderful music from relative obscurity is certainly an admirable goal—none of the pieces recorded here rank among Ellington’s best-known works, and they certainly deserve wider exposure. But good intentions don’t always make the best music. The philosophizing, orchestrating, and conducting aren’t enough to sink this album, but they’re plenty reason to make a listener wish that Stefon Harris would stick to what he does best: playing the vibes...
...Aberle, chief of media operations for the Multinational Corps in Iraq stated flatly. And by Friday afternoon, the Pentagon said in a statement that Cardona "will depart Kuwait and will return to Fort Bragg immediately where he will be assigned duties commensurate with his Military Occupation Specialty and rank that allows him to be a productive member of the military police corps and the United States Army...
...Youth ministers seeking clues will find many in the results of a new survey of what teens want from church. Pollsters from Barna Group, which tracks teen religious activity, asked 2,400 teens to rank the reasons they attend worship services. Gaining a better understanding of what they believe and making a connection with God topped the list, followed closely by wanting to volunteer to help others and to spend time with friends. Also registering as "very important" factors, though to a lesser extent, were classes studying the Bible as well as issues surrounding religious faith...
...between me and my horse--and between me and my partner--helped us ease our way through the minute adjustments, missteps and trip-ups that went into an exercise that was more a test for us than it was for our complacent cayuses. I may have looked like a rank urbanite, but we finished off the maze in short order, which probably surprised our horses more than...
...message, which the Heaths dub (hokey alert!) the Curse of Knowledge, is explained as a sociopsychological phenomenon. This is the thing that makes a CEO talk about "maximizing shareholder value"--a phrase that may make sense to someone immersed in the logic and parlance of business but not to rank-and-file employees. The Heath brothers recount an experiment in which one group was asked to tap out songs for another group to guess the title. There was no music, just knocking on a table. Listeners correctly named about 2.5% of the songs--but the tappers predicted they...