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...success is often about hooks and image, radio play and squeezing into niches. Today, pop music often divides listeners more than it unites them, as fans take sides for and against gangsta rap or rap-rock or alt. country or teen pop. Shallow music sells because it can be understood readily within the 3-minute span of a pop song; great music endures because it can stand up to repeated listens, and, in fact, grows with each hearing...
...writers of the report on the HCCR understood that their touted internationalization comes with a price tag. They suggested that “the [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] expand its allocation of financial support, including summer grants, salaries, stipends and loans, in order to make it possible for all students to pursue at least one international experience.” Without money, there can be no staff support for students when they are at Harvard—current staff at OIP and the area studies centers are already overburdened—and no financial support once they are abroad...
...that gap. Although the prices in the Armani Priv collection--from about $10,000 to $90,000--are lower than the industry standard, Armani didn't skimp on beading. With an atelier of 25, he created sculpted dresses with fishtails and intricately worked bodices. "I hope that people have understood that I can do something other than a man's suit on a woman," he said. Penlope Cruz seemed to get it. "I have four films coming out," she said backstage after the show, "and so I sat there and thought about which gown for which opening in which...
...SURPRISED TO FIND YOURSELF ON RELATIVELY FRIENDLY TERMS WITH THE U.S.? There is never permanent animosity or permanent friendship. When one is mistaken and regrets his past mistakes, this has to be taken into consideration. I realize that America and the West understood that they had made a mistake. It is ironic that Bush is now repeating what I was saying: We were supporting liberation movements in the world...
Montesquieu understood that good government demands the dogged nurturing of a society of laws and an attention to the knotty details of governance. This philosopher, wary of zealotry, was no Utopianist. "Even virtue," he counseled, "has a need for limits." A studious lawyer and vintner from Bordeaux's village of La Br??de, Montesquieu sought no leveling of society. He proposed a system of checks and balances whereby the fiats and whims of France's Bourbon throne were limited by established laws and the countervailing powers of a vital, widely dispersed aristocracy...