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...between groups. Black people have not been oppressed on the basis of their individual faults; rather, individual black people have been discriminated against due to their association with the entire race. Though some individuals have managed to overcome the burdens of racial prejudice, black people are still looked down upon as a group. One of your black friends may seem trustworthy, but that doesn’t necessarily change your negative view of black people as a whole. It’s alright to have one or two black families in the neighborhood, but as soon as more start...
...ever a role is going to expose a rising soprano's skills and flaws, it's that of Alcina. Running over four hours, the Baroque opera presents its leading lady with aria upon aria of fiendishly difficult coloratura singing (Ah! Mio cor! alone is a 12-minute, seven-stages-of-grieving emotional roller-coaster) with minimal orchestral backing. With typical understatement, Durkin calls it musical "Ping Pong." Only the finest sopranos can survive such exercise. Handel's original Alcina, Anna Strada, was unkindly described by a contemporary as having "so little of Venus in her appearance, that she was usually...
...Senate on Tuesday. Connolly will appear before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to argue in support of legislation recently introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) calling upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the cigarette and smokeless tobacco industries. A similar bill calling for FDA regulation passed in the Senate three years ago but failed in the House of Representatives. Connolly said he hopes that FDA regulation of the tobacco industry will lead to greater reductions...
...chord progressions that lead to their own extinction in your consciousness. Or perhaps it’s the sense of menace, magnified by Valle’s low whisper, that curls you into the song’s harmonic arms while the brontosaurus beat stomps forward. The tracks rotate upon revolving choruses and repeating lines (e.g. “There’s no harm / There’s no harm / There’s no harm done”) but the circles shift sufficiently to make the songs interesting. Slow harmonic builds like...
...hospital attendant, you wonder whether a simple line break wouldn’t suffice) and you long for a little artlessness.But, in truth, Eggers’ retelling of this story is exactly what we needed. For those of us who have been reading new stories about hundreds upon hundreds of deaths, who are no longer shocked by another headline about a bomb in some distant city, and who have difficulty remembering (if we ever knew in the first place) who exactly the Lost Boys of Sudan were, this book gives us some of our heart back.We...