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Twinlights also continues vocalist Liz Fraser's recent trend toward a less embellished singing style. Considering her assertion that abuse in childhood led her to sing in nonsense syllables, one can only be glad to see her emergence into the realm of the intelligible. Yet Fraser's voice has now lost its most striking asset, an "I'm either verging on a nervous breakdown or about to explode with joy" quality. Her singing on this EP is on a par with the pretty but insipid vocals of the Sundays' Harriet Wheeler -- without the cynical edge of humor that makes Wheeler...
...here in the realm of leading-edge medical technology that the culture clash between the new medicine and the old becomes most evident. The new medicine, by its nature, abhors complexity and innovation. Health Net, for example, won't cover any treatment it deems to be experimental or investigative, even though its contract with MediCal, California's Medicaid program, does cover visits to acupuncturists and faith healers. Like other HMOs, it spends nothing on research to hunt for new treatments for disease. In fact, it feels bound by law and competition to avoid such research...
...German cause, but for the fact that in victory Harvard was magnanimous enough, secure enough and convinced enough of its own deals to recall these dead not as strangers or as enemies but as separated brethren. It moves us beyond the syndrome of "win/lose" and into the realm of tragedy and hope. A university that finds these ideals too risky to express is itself at risk...
...Moses and Abraham, but what of the central figure of the New? Was Jesus of Nazareth a real person who trod the dusty roads of Palestine in the 1st century? Or were his life, death and resurrection, as recorded in the four Gospels, events that belong entirely to the realm of faith...
...political-action committee that took in donations from wealthy conservatives, violated federal election laws by actively participating in congressional campaigns in 1989 and '90. GOPAC officials always denied the charge, claiming the committee was dedicated to supporting candidates for only state and local races, which would be outside the realm of federal financial-disclosure rules. The agency probed the matter following a Democratic complaint in 1990, and Gingrich has said the FEC offered to settle it for $150,000. But when GOPAC refused, the FEC filed a civil lawsuit last year. Last week the agency submitted several thousand pages...