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...lines” as solos. Take, for example, Franz Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet, a passionate work that features the cello as a tragic heroine. Without the utterance of a single word, the instruments engage in heated arguments or profess their lyrical love for one another...
...owners and managers of such schools profess a strong belief in what they do. Spring Creek allowed a TIME journalist to attend the parents' weekend and tour the campus, providing a rare glimpse into the daily regimens and conditions at one of these tough-love schools and an intimate look at the difficult choices facing parents who send their children to them...
...more than Europeans, Kristol said, Americans continue to believe in the traditional nation-state, hold the military in high regard, spend substantially on defense and profess religious faith...
...favoring “muscular internationalism” Republicans preaching “Compassion”—reflects not merely the usual slide to the center, but a profound confusion in our country as a whole. Americans are stuck in a Blue State-Red State rut and profess a deep division over just about everything. The past two presidential campaigns were particularly good indicators of this growing polarization. In practice, all of this means that American political parties are getting harder and harder to label...
...amazed by how little most Americans seem to know about the rest of the world and by their inability to see things in other than absolute terms. The most dangerous leaders--political and religious--are those who paint the world in black and white. They profess to recognize very clearly, at first sight, the good from the bad. They have absolute certainty that God is on their side. Such demagogues can be Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Democrat or Republican. But the world's challenges are not black and white. Despite what the Bush Administration maintains, the war in Iraq has nothing...