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Daphne Moss, 30, can barely reconstruct her 20s, when she dwelt in a shadowy land of waking nightmares, fiendish voices and the alarming conviction that her parents were actually witches. What she can recall clearly is the moment two years ago when it all came down to one choice: Should she dive headfirst or feetfirst from the third-floor window ledge of her room in a Cleveland boarding house? Feetfirst, she decided. It meant a fractured hip, multiple bruises -- and survival...
According to Hogwood, the one bright spot in last year's festivities was the public scrutiny of the composition Mozart's Requiem, which he left unfinished at his death November 7, 1791. Hogwood said the inquiry involved general listeners in "specialist concerns," including attempts to complete and reconstruct the requiem...
...fascistic tendencies, territorial ambitions and an ominously large popular following. The U.S. might then find itself dragged back into another open-ended international crisis that would make the meagerness of its current aid program seem penny-wise and pound-foolish. After all, the Marshall Plan and other programs to reconstruct Germany and Japan after World War II were arguably as important to avoiding World War III as was the containment of communism...
...Both sides have a genuine interest in getting closer to the other. The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf. Iran wishes to reconstruct its economy and play a fuller part in the community of nations -- and that's legitimate. My part is a tiny part in that equation -- it's big for me, but it's a tiny part...
...after various African agricultural festivals, and the name derives from the Swahili word for first fruit of the harvest. It was created by Maulana Karenga, a black-studies professor at California State University, Long Beach. The purpose of the holiday, he says, is to help black people "rescue and reconstruct our history and culture and shape them in our own image...