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...took 10 years to teach Paravicini how to play using the more conventional method. Now he can reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes and come up with surprising hybrids - Mozart in the style of Joplin; Culture Club's Karma Chameleon as Chopin might have played it; Handel's Water Music with a ragtime...
There are lots of reasons for Dallas' political shift, some peculiar to last year's mid-terms. Nearly 40,000 Dallas Republicans stayed home last fall, according to county G.O.P. chairman Kenn George, because they were angry about federal spending, immigration policy and the way the war was being conducted. Many of those who did vote were simply looking for a D next to a name, any name. "There were people that had been in office that really were probably good people on the Republican side," says Oakley, a Democrat. "It didn't matter...
...President or the post-9/11 distortion field that muzzled the media, immobilized Congress and magnified Executive power. "I think this started before 9/11, and I think it's continued long after the penumbra of 9/11 became less dominant," he says. "I think it is part of a larger shift driven by powerful forces"-print giving way to television as our dominant medium for examining ideas, television acting on our brains in ways that scientists are just beginning to unlock. As such, it's not the sort of problem that legislation is going to fix. Gore hopes that the Internet...
...officials, including Goodling - who pleaded Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, but has since been granted immunity - are expected to be called in front of the House and Senate judiciary committees in coming weeks. There is some speculation that, with McNulty's pending departure, they will attempt to shift more of the blame for the debacle onto him, saying that he was more involved in the decision-making surrounding the firing of the U.S. attorneys than he has thus far let on. In fact, the shifting has already begun. "You have to remember...
...Ethics and Public Policy Center. "Falwell came along and said, 'Politics is important now. You can't stay apart.' That was no small thing. Whether one agrees with Falwell or not, to mobilize millions of people who had heretofore been apolitical - and apolitical for theological reasons - was quite a shift for a Southern fundamentalist preacher...