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...finish with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique.” The slow and somber beginning to the first movement gave no indication of the change in mood that was to come. In the second movement, orchestra members’ technical precision shone as they navigated through the difficulty of playing an irregular 5/4 time that was meant to be played with the style of a waltz in 3/4 time.The HRO appeared at its very best in the third movement. The movement’s grandiloquence and force may have been a little...
...tape-to-tape passes,” captain Dylan Reese said. “They were just chipping it off the glass, moving it around, and just putting it in spaces where we weren’t and winning the footraces.” The barrage of Dartmouth goals shone the spotlight on Tobe, as the senior allowed five goals in his first contest as the established starter. That total included two Big Green scores just 34 seconds apart, as center T.J. Galliardi followed up David Jones’ tally at 14:45 of the second period with a goal...
...DARK AGES BEGIN When the cosmos was about 400,000 years old, it had cooled to about the temperature of the surface of the sun, allowing subatomic particles to combine for the first time into atoms. The last burst of light from the Big Bang shone forth at that time; it is still detectable today in the form of a faint whisper of microwaves streaming from all directions in space. The discovery of those microwaves in 1964 confirmed the existence of the Big Bang...
...home rather than staying in the safety of their doorway with a notebook as a shield. Sometimes a reporter’s only insurance is her own trust.At the end of the boat a little larger than a bedroom, Chris and Jacqui hovered at identical picking tables. Three bulbs shone on their bare hands as they flung the clear shrimp into bubbling tanks. They swept piles of sea grass, slick fish, red-ripe coral, and moray eels back into the water. Bouncing porpoises caught the chum.But at 2 a.m. the machine that mixes oxygen into the water stopped pumping...
...Kabul had been patrolled successfully by thousands of NATO peacekeepers until riots five weeks ago, which shone a spotlight on the limitations of the fledgling Afghan security forces. The riots, which killed at least a dozen, were sparked by the crash of an American convoy into a crowd of civilians. "The speed with which the government lost control of the city and rampaging demonstrators were able to take over the streets signalled to the Taliban and others that Kabul's defenses were weak. Now they are taking advantage," said a Western security analyst...