Word: schaeffer
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...next day at Saddleback's Sunday services, Warren tried to reclaim his postpartisan reputation, telling his congregants that he would not endorse a presidential candidate nor tell anyone whom he was going to vote for. But that same day, he gave an interview to Naomi Schaeffer Riley of the Wall Street Journal that left very few questions about his leanings. The Democratic Party's new platform calling for a reduction in the abortion rate was, he said, "window dressing" and "too little, too late." When Riley asked Warren about some of Obama's Evangelical supporters, he dismissed the significance...
...toxins in the ash could seep into the soil or groundwater, contaminating drinking water supplies. Environmentalists would prefer federal regulations that require ash to be buried in lined landfills that would prevent leakage. "You can't talk about clean coal without dealing with this problem," says Eric Schaeffer, the director of the Environmental Integrity Project, which just came out with a new report finding that there are nearly 100 other largely unregulated wet dumps like the Kingston facility across...
...Pierre Schaeffer debuted the first piece of musique concrète in Paris, creating new avenues for music that have been explored over the last 60 years. The concerts celebrated the anniversary of this event, showcasing some of the most important works that have been inspired by these original experiments...
Despite this difficulty, the amount of good music that has sprung from the crucial innovations Schaeffer made 60 years ago is remarkable. As its name would suggest, the importance of musique concrète—influential in the work of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Aphex Twin—is very much set in stone...
...been misscored in October, one by 450 points. The Massachusetts Department of Education uses MCAS scores to determine whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. But Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest—a Cambridge-based organization that monitors standardized tests from the kindergarten through the graduate level—said the occurrence of grading errors in the MCAS undermines the validity of these tests in charting student performance. “Over the last several...