Word: broads
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...Brahms trio was performed with considerably more finesse. The broad, tragic opening of the first movement has a striking harmonic similarity to Beethoven's fifth symphony, and the trio expressed this character very clearly. The Beaux Arts musicians seemed more in their element playing dense Romantic music than in the delicate and witty Haydn which preceded...
...recent weeks the Harvard community has been exposed to an avalanche of pro-Iraqi propaganda from a broad spectrum of interest groups such as the Democratic Socialists, Students Against War in the Middle East and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). Implicit in their writings is the claim to represent the opinions of the overwhelming majority of Arabs. In reality, their viewpoints would be more correctly characterized as representing only a small but vocal minority of the Arab people...
Progress stalled after the Democrats demanded a trade-off: higher income tax rates on the wealthy. Budget Director Richard Darman, Bush's chief representative, countered by calling for large cuts in entitlement programs. Democrats were already fretting about the possibility that Social Security, Medicare and other programs with broad constituencies may have to be slashed. Having earlier agreed to slicing $130 billion from entitlements over five years, the Democrats retreated to $100 billion. For the moment at least, both parties were hiding from reality in their familiar ideological bunkers: Republicans trying to minimize tax increases, Democrats attempting to protect popular...
...middle and high school curriculums are being revised to give a better accounting of the history and achievements of the nation's ever more diverse population. But, at the same time, there is growing concern that one of education's central goals -- the forging of citizens who share a broad, common culture -- is under assault...
...Monster Cores. Don't those lottery policies look great! Preferred admission to seniors and first-years. Oh boy! Preferred admission to a class with 700 students, 600 first-years, 10 section leaders, no papers, a big-name professor with one office hour, and a topic as broad and shallow as the Mississippi Delta. That's my idea of intellectual excitement...