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...should that be? In part because Texas is the vestige of an independent nation. Texas proclaimed itself a republic, not a state, 150 years ago. The Texan's ancestral memory is strong. The state's highways are lined with historical markers, as well as with antilittering signs that sound just the right note of truculent nationalism: don't mess with texas. Texans cherish a sort of dual citizenship. They joke about it. Lone Star calls itself the national beer of Texas. It is hard to imagine a man from Chicago calling himself an Illinoisan in the way that...
...Germany. Eventually, 900 of the squawking waterfowl, in platoons of six to 40, will take up posts at 30 sites run by the U.S. Army's 32nd Air Defense Command. The idea is not as ludicrous as it may seem. With their acute sense of hearing, geese when startled sound the alarm by hissing, honking loudly and flapping their wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved Rome by raising a noisy commotion as the Gauls approached the city walls in 390 B.C. What is more, the entire goose patrol...
While the majority of Harvard undergrads are closeted in libraries or hunched over their computers, VES students are spending their time painting, making films, and designing models. To some, VES may sound like a great way to get through Harvard without doing any work, but studio classes meet for a minimum of six hours a week, and concentrators must spend an additional 15 to 20 hours per week working on projects outside of class. A senior thesis is mandatory, but students are allowed to indulge their imaginations in a creative project or an upper-level class, as well...
...what he wants to say. I put my hands, heart and belief at his disposal." A complex, rhapsodic study in tone color, it is particularly well suited to Stern's soulful intonation and vibrant technical flair. "You have to study the whole score and put together the sound in your head totally," explains the soloist. "Then you take the work apart measure by measure. You must learn the work from the inside; you work slowly until it becomes yours." Stern's dashing reading with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal under Charles Dutoit convincingly stamped the piece...
...view, is more intense," Kawakubo says. "It's the first presentation of my new work in front of journalists from all over the world." These, however, are not the best of times for any design that makes demands on the initiative and imagination of the wearer. "It may sound a bit harsh," says Yohji Yamamoto, "but Europe's snobbishness is equal to America's conservatism. To people living in a conservative world, new fashions, new trends and new designs are like something you see in the theater: you clap, but you never live what...