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...this mutedness should not imply that the performance was lightened-up to the detriment of the music in the same way that a caf‚ au lait manages to retain the integrity of a shot of espresso but just in a more subdued manner. The reward of this "quiet" performance was evident for all who listened carefully. The piano-playing abilities of renowned German pianist Christian Zacharias were both impressive and compelling. Especially touching was the way he handled the "Adagio." Zacharias's ability to juxtapose articulation with lyrical continuity was particularly shown in this movement. His fingers...
First, Annan sent a letter that offered Saddam not just an out but a win: a nice reward--broad hints of accelerating the move to lift the economic embargo of Iraq--if Saddam would just act nice. Saddam responded with his "Swiss cheese" letter, a disingenuous, heavily hedged show of compliance with U.N. demands that was, in fact, a prescription for more Iraqi "cheat and retreat" on weapons inspections. Nonetheless, the very transmittal of that letter, as yet unparsed, was enough to prompt President Clinton to recall his bombers in midflight...
...also not a company afraid to spend money to reward its employees. After several months in the intense learning environment of TU, the company headed off to Las Vegas for the weekend...
...This amendment to the state constitution would tie state legislators' base pay to the median household income in Massachusetts. 2 This law would establish a voluntary campaign spending limits that would reward participating candidates with state funds. 3 This law would reduce the state income tax rate on interest and dividend income. 4 The law--currently in effect--restructured the electric utility industry. A no vote would undo the changes. 5 Should the state representative vote for removal of a nuclear reactor on Albany Street? 6 Should the state representative vote for legislation stimulating increased production and availability of affordable...
...brick and stone but space itself. Australia had no Mississippi or Missouri, no fertile center; explorers went out into it, found little but desert, and died. The literary myth of its landscape, created by writers from the 1850s on, was at best hardscrabble survival--not America's lavish reward to the pioneer. Australia didn't rhyme with many words, but "failure...