Word: wondered
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Just as liberals live in growing fear that America has had it with affirmative action, conservatives have to wonder if the future of the pro-life movement is not equally bleak. No doubt, the pro-life lobby remains strong and abortion continues to be restricted (i.e., parental consent requirements, bans on partial-birth abortions). But I would be just as surprised to see abortion outlawed in this country in the next 10 years as I would to see affirmative action embraced by the masses. Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned; the voters will not let it happen...
What disappoints me most is that this article was written by two Harvard women. If some of the most educated, intelligent women in our country condone these stereotypes, is it any wonder that they continue to exist and influence society? If the authors are representative of those who are looked to as leaders in the next century, I am truly frightened for the future of women in our nation...
...Ever wonder why a firm's share price gets hammered even though its earnings surpass stock analysts' published expectations? Most likely, it failed to beat the "whisper" number that really matters on Wall Street--the one analysts apply privately, when they aren't trying to make life easier for their firm's clients. This earnings season investors can read more of the market's gossip at sites like whispernumber.com and www.earningswhispers.com...
...performers to capture Mahler's spirit in any of his compositions, his final pieces are especially challenging. Mahler's repertoire requires spiritual empathy as well as technical delicacy. A conductor must look at life and try to see what Mahler saw--a combination of fear, ennui and child-like wonder. Unsurprisingly, an exquisite performance of Mahler is moving--but rare. And so, when conductor Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (B.S.O.) performed one of Mahler's final (and arguably, most perfect) pieces, the vocal accompanied Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), they achieved two feats...
Museums, it has been said, are the modern cathedrals. Richard Meier's Los Angeles Getty Musuem, Frank Gehry's Bilboa Guggenheim--these are the seats of present-day architectural spectacle and wonder. This year's winner of the Pritzker Prize (architecture's highest award) demonstrated his own ability to generate that sense of wonder. It was, indeed, a grand Piano performance...