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...Therein lies the dilemma that the American government, the states and cities, U.S. business and financial interests face. The sand of the economy may slip though their fingers before they can make a fist...
...inches over the horizon. As the sun rises the clanging music ascends as well, then crescendos in burly romantic strains, mimicking the luscious contours of the Arabian desert. Lawrence has come to Arabia; the music announces the beginning of a lifelong communion between a man and the endless sand...
...Producer Sam Spiegel saw, and heard, the movie, and thought Jarre could be helpful in finding an aural complement to Lean's sand-swept tribute to T.E. Lawrence. As Stephen M. Silverman tells it in his excellent Lean biography, Spiegel had originally wanted Lawrence to have three composers: Jarre would do the dramatic music, while Aram Khachaturian scored the Arab scenes and Benjamin Britten the English. When those two estimable gents proved unavailable, Spiegel corralled Richard Rodgers into writing an Arabian motif and a "love theme" - for an all-male movie. Sanity eventually prevailed: the not-so-well-known Frenchman...
...care legislation in budget "reconciliation" - an aggressive maneuver that would mean it requires only 51 votes to pass the Senate, rather than the 60 it takes to overcome a filibuster under the normal rules. "If it's partisan, the minority party can find all kinds of ways to throw sand in the gears, and outside groups will start to mobilize," he warns. "My view is, we can get more than 60 votes." To do otherwise, he says, is to risk having the whole program come apart as it is being put in effect. "Once it becomes partisan," he warns...
Unlike most students on campus, players on the Harvard men’s lacrosse team are not anxiously awaiting some rest and relaxation on the warm sand over spring recess. Try metal, sweat, and churned up grass. While the team will be flying south to warmer climates and staying in hotels like most of America’s college population, there will be no tanning oils or beach balls in sight—only rubber balls. Tomorrow, the Crimson (3-1, 0-0 Ivy) faces rival Penn (1-3, 0-1), an offensive powerhouse that defeated Harvard 12-10 last...