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...Let’s make a circle,” the CityStep teachers chant and clap in unison as the students scramble to form an unevenly spaced ellipse—the preferred configuration for announcements and discussions...
...march. “Appeal to Reason” should have a sound that frays around the edges, bursts with power, and inspires. Unfortunately, the production is too clean, too compressed, and too lifeless. It is akin to a protest where everyone marches in strict formation and chants in unison. Sadly, the music is also lacking. The punk rock sound on “Appeal to Reason” has been worn out by many a band before, including Rise Against themselves. Economical three-chord punk with infectious vocal melodies is growing old and boring. On their seminal 1998 album...
...orchestra composed in 1991 by American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Romanian violinist Irina Muresanu joined cellist Andrew Mark in this two-movement double concerto. The work was characterized by constant dissonance and a mixture of tempos and rhythms. In the more lyrical first movement, the soloists were often in unison, rather than engaged in dialogue with each other. The repetitive motifs carried through the work, but did not seem to have a clear sense of direction. Hangen had one last chance to turn around the uninspired performance with a soulful rendition of Elgar’s “Enigma?...
...banks and insure deposits; get governments to step in and guarantee short-term interbank lending. "The first good thing about this situation is that it does not call for different central banks and Treasuries to do different things, but rather for them all to do the same thing in unison without fouling each other's oars. That should be relatively easy to arrange," wrote University of California, Berkeley, professor J. Bradford DeLong in a new e-book about the crisis...
...Europe is not entirely without leverage. Sarkozy warned on Monday that the E.U. would act in unison against Russian if its troops do not pull out of Georgia. Analysts believe the E.U. could stop negotiations, launched earlier in the summer, over a package of trade agreements between Europe and Russia. "Russia's economic relationship with the West is mostly based on oil and gas, but they want to diversify," says Jan Techau, head of the Europe program for the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. But whether the situation demands escalating confrontation with Moscow will be the subject...