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...Emmylou Harris Cowgirl's Prayer (Asylum). In her 22nd album country music's hippest traditionalist turns to God as the best part of life: wise parent, firm friend, ultimate beau. This sheaf of fine songs, intimate readings and delicately powerful melodies makes divine love sound like a kiss in the back of a pickup. If there's a honky-tonk in heaven, Harris will be the star act on stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST MUSIC OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...federalism. The regions can draw up their own constitutions. They can make their own laws and impose taxation. We did not agree with this. But we felt that in order to bring everybody on board, we should make certain compromises. DE KLERK: They have made major concessions. They were wise. Domination cannot work, or there will again be a struggle. MANDELA: There is no doubt that South Africans, black and white, are coming together. I have been addressing some of the most conservative sectors. Their response is so positive. One of the first questions is, ''When did you change your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NELSON MANDELA & F.W. DE KLERK | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...involving a Volvo, several cases of beer, and a collision with the main gate. This was quite the feat, really, considering neither cars nor Coors were allowed on campus. After this clear pattern of suspect attachment followed by sudden abandonment, you’d think for sure I would wise up before college. Hard-working was the new black. It was so clearly the inside that counted. Prim boys were in. But there has remained something undeniably attractive about the wrong side of town, sleeping late on a Monday, and his puppy dog grin (the one other girls know nothing...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Bad Boys, Bad Boys | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...severity of the audience, saying it was more like a talent show than a real Apollo Night, since no one wanted to boo their friends off the stage. The only two acts were chased off stage were Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08—who offered a wise-cracking magic show—and the dance group Impulse. Most groups were lucky enough to gain the audience’s approval. Jared B. Lucas ’09’s clear falsetto rendering of Maxwell’s “This Woman’s Work?...

Author: By Kathryn E. Patrick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cheers Resound for Performers at Apollo Night | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

...estimates the increased discount on generics would save another $300 million, but outside experts such as Stephen Schondelmeyer, a professor of pharmaceutical economics at the University of Minnesota, predicts it'll end up being "one of those penny wise, pound foolish decisions." That's because generic drug companies, which have far smaller profit margins than the brand-name firms, warn that the increased discount would squeeze them out of the Medicaid market, leaving the brand-name manufacturers-which can more easily absorb a rebate increase-to cash in when the federal program has to buy the higher priced drugs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate Squares Off in Drug Discount War | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

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