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Shirley, a ninth grader at Cambridge's Matignon High School, pointed to the cracked wall by her living room sofa, as she complained of the cold temperature in the room. Her mother, Marie, appeared in the doorway buttoning her coat, and slipped out of the door after delivering some last remarks in Haitian Creole...
...Wagner cannot be heard in Israel; the Symphony of Rishon Lezion, a Tel Aviv suburb, violated the taboo two years ago, to little or no outcry. And it is not as if the Nazis didn't turn the works of other composers, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Liszt's Les Preludes, into political totems as well. Yet Wagner's unique resonance continues to sound, louder and more forcefully than that of the others...
...huge--John struck a chord. For 19 years, I have harbored deep feelings that exercise, eating right, muscles, physical fitness and personal hygiene in general are--how shall I say it--overrated. In ninth grade, Coach Shepard told me I'd regret not playing JV football for the rest of my life. And you know what? He was wrong. What a moron...
Moreover, Harvard showed that it can compete among top teams in the nation (Michigan entered the tournament as fifth in the nation, Michigan State ninth...
...miracles be programmed onto microchips and still belong to the category of the miraculous? Can the wonder of the other world, the hypothetical perfection, be dreamed up, designed and turned into products? A perfect digital reproduction of the Ninth Symphony owes its miraculousness not to the manufacturer of the sound system but to the divinity in Beethoven's music...