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...tend to hear Beethoven today as the precursor to the Romantics. Gardiner takes the opposite tack; for him, Beethoven is the natural successor to the classical school of Haydn (his teacher) and Mozart. After all, Beethoven did not know Bruckner and Mahler were on their way, but he certainly did know the music of his time, and Gardiner reveals (and revels in) Beethoven's links to it. In place of the weighty textures and stately pace that mark modern interpretations, Gardiner offers a Haydn-like sprightliness...
...group's leader, Hyewon Chong '95, promises a different tack this year. "It's because I've spent so much time working through the appropriate channels, I feel that a different approach may work better." Chong also promised to end the "quiet activism" of years past, an ambiguous statement that could signal several different directions. We have some suggestions from which she might want to pick...
...Clinton adopts the tack Rivlin and Shapiro favor, a stance that seeks to get ahead of the coming congressional rush to cut spending in ways he will probably abhor, the President can define the agenda and demonstrate leadership. If instead he merely follows Congress's lead -- or vetoes his way through the next two years -- he could find himself back in Little Rock...
...family values sound bite. Instead, he said the idea was actually nor his at all; rather, that he was drawing on ideas brought up by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) years ago. Quayle looked supremely reasonable and the press looked like the distorting villain, just the tack he hopes to take to restore his credibility...
...Navy base so they could move thousands of Cubans in for indefinite detention. Defense Secretary William Perry said the base, which already houses 14,000 Haitian refugees, will add facilities for 10,000 more people by week's end and that many more by early September. A new tack in the US's so-far shaky deterrence effort: Cubans will be encouraged to apply for U.S. visas from Havana. "These are all short-term solutions to a migration problem," says TIME Washington Correspondent James Carney. "If this doesn...