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...recital was an overwhelmingly brilliant performance. From the lyricism and beauty of musical line of the Faure to the technical brilliance of the Transcriptions, Perlman demonstrated his mastery of the violin and his deep understanding of the music he plays...
Rich's reading culminated with her sharing of two new works with the audience, coupled by an expletive prelude to her artistry. Modeled after the classic Italian form of tertza rhima (3-line triplets with elaborate end-rhymes), one of Rich's new works pays homage to Dante's Divine Comedy, which embodies this structure. Although it lacks end-rhymes, Rich's poem puts a twist on Dante's theme of the novice and the guide, ultimately celebrating what Rich terms "the death of history." She concludes that one's self is both novice and guide, as the poem...
...daylight in upon magic, as Bagehot said of the monarchy. The post-election has scrambled the dynamic. A ritual transfer of power should go this way: We fight through a messy, noisy campaign, we line up in an orderly fashion to choose one candidate or the other, and then we reconcile ourselves to the choice and feel relief that we can forget about it. Now there is no relief. The mess that should have ended has followed us in to Thanksgiving dinner, and may be threatening Christmas...
...sense of where the camps may divide. Of course, as always, you have to look at each question with a grain of salt: The Justices can ask any questions for any reason - strategic, intellectual, et cetera. For example, they may ask a question to redirect the line of debate, or in order to make a point to their colleagues...
Tickets to get into the inner sanctum were so hard to come by that people began lining up two days in advance. Ron Hutchings, 20, of Anchorage, Alaska, and Scott Shryack, 20, of Los Angeles, were number two and three in line, having camped outside the courthouse in near-freezing temperatures since 6 am Thursday, subsisting on chips, candy bars and coffee. "We wanted to witness history," Hutchings said. "But did you ever stretch out on cold marble? We didn't get a lot of sleep...