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When the weatherman told me that the temperature would bottom out at nine degrees a few days ago, I realized December had truly come. It's the time of year all of us start thinking about snow, final papers, winter vacation and yes, Christmas trees...
Schools are closed, flights have been canceled and the National Guard is helping to clear roads in Buffalo after a heavy storm dumped almost three feet of snow on this frigid city in western New York over the weekend. TIME's Andy Danzo reports: "This storm was very strong and it has created some problems. Schools and colleges are closed, which doesn't usually happen. The main roads have been cleared, but side streets and rural roads are problematic. Officials have asked people with four-wheel drive vehicles to volunteer to deliver supplies and medicine to people who are snowed...
More telling is the tilt to his commercials, which have gone negative long before the first sign of snow. Among his ads blanketing New Hampshire and Iowa, one is the sharpest attack so far against Dole; it accuses the Senator of voting for 16 tax increases in the past 13 years, a charge that nettled Dole when Forbes himself made it in a cnn debate two weeks ago in Florida...
...millions who have watched him and his wife Ekaterina Gordeeva perform but especially for the close-knit skating community that had come to believe in the fairy tale of G and G. "We don't need to have this lesson," 1992 Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie said as the snow fell outside Lake Placid's Mirror Lake Inn two days after his friend's death. "This is just too hard to accept...
...musically rewarding than ever. This week he plays a birthday concert in Carnegie Hall, featuring works by Lizst, Chopin and Beethoven. Sony Classics, meanwhile, has just released a new CD, The Romantic Master, which is largely devoted to Wild's own dazzling transcriptions, among them the delightful Reminiscences of Snow White, a fantasy on Frank Churchill's music for the 1937 Disney animated film. But lest one think that Wild is all flash and no substance, his recent recording of Beethoven's thorny "Hammerklavier" Sonata, on the Chesky label, is grandly conceived and brilliantly executed, from the soulful (and lengthy...