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...Graf alternated tours aboard a destroyer tender, a frigate and a destroyer with shore assignments at the Pentagon and as a Navy ROTC instructor at Villanova University, outside Philadelphia. She earned a Bronze Star during the Iraq war (along with the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal and two Meritorious Service Medals). Adding some academic heft to her résumé, Graf earned three master's degrees - in national security from the Naval War College, in civil engineering from Villanova and in systems analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School. Early in her career, there were few signs...
...that tender image has been shattered by recent allegations that young singers in the famed Regensburger Domspatzen choir, which the elder Ratzinger directed from 1964 to 1994, have suffered sexual abuse and beatings at the hands of priests since the 1950s. Though the retired Ratzinger, 86, denies any knowledge of sexual abuse during his time with the choir, he has admitted to slapping several singers and apologized for not having intervened to limit the crueler beatings that have been alleged by others. (See pictures of the Pope in the Holy Land...
...stage with breathtaking expression. Though the orchestra’s complementation of his performance was not perfect at times, Tam displayed a uniquely sensitive and heart wrenching interpretation of Chopin’s first piano concerto. Especially striking during the second movement, Tam’s phrasing evoked a tender fragility that lingered in the theater even with the swell of the orchestra behind him. Tam’s artistry in no way overshadowed his technique during this notably difficult concerto—he presented strength and articulation in the intricate fast passages of the third movement until the concerto?...
...stay there. (Contrast that with the need to quickly remove meat from an oven or a grill lest it turn into a hockey puck.) Sealing food in plastic also ensures that no flavor or nutrients will seep out. Depending on what kind of food you're cooking and how tender you want it, you drop your pouch of food into water in the morning or the day before you want to eat it. At night, you come home to something far tastier than what you would get out of a Crock-Pot. Or so I thought...
...Vintage Cirque style, Viva Elvis often soars into the symbolic, the oneiric. To suggest the star's closeness to his twin brother Jesse, who died at birth, the show offers, to a tender rendition of the ballad "One Night," a vision of two young men in James Dean--ish white T-shirts and jeans, executing soulful acrobatics, alone and together, on a guitar-shaped apparatus suspended in front of a starry night sky. At the end, one of the men--Jesse--falls off into the abyss...