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Radano says he encourages his students to focus on diverse aspects of music, much in the way he himself did. In his spare time, Radano goes to blues bars, seeing the Chicago blues bands which stop by in Madison on their way to Minneapolis...
...acquiesce in--or indeed encourage--the deliberate creation of deformed and dying quasi-human life, you know we are facing a bioethical abyss. Human beings are ends, not means. There is no grosser corruption of biotechnology than creating a human mutant and disemboweling it at our pleasure for spare parts...
LONDON: Dick Morris, where are you? Britain?s Royal Family, stung by criticism following Princess Diana?s death, has called in pollsters to help reposition itself in the hearts of its subjects. The Royals, whose hereditary rule was supposed to spare them the vulgar pursuits of politicians, has asked British political polling firm MORI to create focus groups designed to make Buckingham Palace?s work reflect the "interests and concerns" of its subjects. Their Highnesses seeking the counsel of soccer mums? Next thing they?ll want to give Britain a constitution...
...Budapest, the son of George, the dairyman, and Maria, a bookkeeping clerk. His father, a gregarious, easygoing man with a strong, logical mind, left school early and taught himself business and accounting--everything he needed to know to run a small dairy service. Grove's mother, a spare, lovely woman, raised him in their two-room 19th century apartment. From an early age Grove was marked as the son of a capitalist and as a Jew. His parents hoped that with hard work he could overcome the prejudices...
...Cold Mountain (Atlantic Monthly Press) Imagine Odysseus walking through the blue mountains of North Carolina in the ghostly half-light at the end of the Civil War. Charles Frazier's miraculous (and best-selling) first novel is as spare as timeless myth, one man's yearning homeward. Yet its deeply local details, its twiggy smell of roots and solitary eccentrics, evoke the spirit of Thoreau--and the Taoist hermits who once haunted the Cold Mountains of old China...