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...cannot hold a meeting that excludes people on the basis of gender," Hanselman said. He called those responsible for the meeting "perpetrators of divisiveness on the council. My intent was to get this out in the open...
Genius and passion. To end an artistic endeavor of any sort with the intent and feeling that one had in its beginning represents the greatest expression of both. The Bach Society Orchestra's final concert of the season contained just such a note of finality. Conductor Evan Christ concluded his BSO career Saturday night, replete with the show-stopping presence of world-class composer and conductor Alan Hovahness and a coterie of soloists. Christ will conduct his thesis work May 10th, but for all intents and purposes, this nearly flawless concert was his performing swan-song...
This complexity of character makes Cambridge singular among historical novels, a genre usually so intent on showing the constancy of human nature, on proving that people "back then" were "just like you and me." Emily and Cambridge are indeed recognizable human characters, but they remain largely locked in the ideologies of their time. Emily considers herself a liberal even as she casually spews racist rhetoric; the proud slave Cambridge despises his African birthplace and views his own unconverted wife as a degenerate. Phillips' almost brutal insistence on historical accuracy renders these characters at once alien and sympathetic. It is this...
...central notion that legal scholarship and experience are of paramount importance in the selection and confirmation processes seems to have drowned under the tide of special-interests that have bastardized the last three Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Unfortunately, Clinton seems intent on continuing this tragic decline--this summer, he promised a pro-choice nominee...
...displayed threatening "hulk-like strength," appeared to be high on drugs and failed to heed police commands. "He made all the choices, all the wrong choices," said Koon. When a flurry of baton blows had no effect, "I then ordered the officers to attack his joints," Koon recounted. "The intent I had was to cripple him, to break bones, to make him unable to push off the ground." The defense got further support when the judge refused to allow into evidence passages from a draft copy of Koon's book, Presumed Guilty, about the incident, in which the author makes...