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...Baker spent five sleepless weeks conceptualizing the concert. He says he cannot control what ring tones people have, or whether all audience members will follow the lighting cues, but he can create spatial relationships by having individual sections respond to different lighting cues. "The premise is chaos versus order," says Baker...
...into the fall semester, our room had become an unbearably tense atmosphere of tears, public fights, sleepless nights, and slammed doors that left no one happy. I cannot begin to describe the issues the five of us personally had, nor would it be helpful at this point. At the most basic level, the conflict was a four-against-one situation regarding the quiet hours of our room and the schedules that we kept, only exacerbated by ancillary emotions surrounding the transition to college...
Inside, Jessi lay sleepless, her blood pressure dangerously low, her heart rate high. From her bed she could not see a thing, but she could hear the thump, thump of the helicopters. She thought the Iraqis had come for her by air, to take her to Baghdad or to kill her. She felt the panic again...
...cartoons of the Prophet [Feb. 20]. That mess could have been avoided if there had been sensible restraint and mutual respect. Although the delirious arrogance and insolence of the West have long perturbed me, the violence and vehemence whipped up by my fellow Muslims have caused me many sleepless nights. While people generally don't take religious insults lightly, we have overreacted, intensifying the long and undying conflict between two faiths of similar origin. Those tensions do not bode well for world peace in the next generation, let alone in the immediate future. Sometimes I wonder whether humans really need...
...unnecessary publication of cartoons of the Prophet. That mess could have been avoided if there had been sensible restraint and mutual respect. Although the delirious arrogance and insolence of the West have long perturbed me, the violence and vehemence whipped up by my fellow Muslims have caused me many sleepless nights. While people generally don't take religious insults lightly, we have overreacted, intensifying the long and undying conflict between two faiths of similar origin. Those tensions do not bode well for world peace in the next generation, let alone in the immediate future. Sometimes I wonder whether humans really...