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I must have listened to the beginning of Lord of the Rings I, the Fellowship of the Ring about a dozen times. I love Cate Blanchett’s voice. It began with the forging of the great rings. three were given to the elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings, seven to the dwarf lords, great [...]

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For day two in Read Street’s September 11 book giveaway, I’m offering "Unmeasured Strength," a memoir by Lauren Manning, one of the survivors of the World Trade Center collapse. Manning, a partner in the Cantor Fitzgerald financial services firm, was headed to her office on the 105th floor when terrorists slammed a jetliner into the [...]

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It’s about 1:00 on Saturday morning, and a nurse has just woken me up to check my vitals. I’m still half asleep, but I know what’s coming next—she presses down on my stomach, and I brace myself and cringe from the pain in my incision. Before she leaves, the nurse places the pump next to [...]

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“the View” starts its 15th season on Tuesday, and love will be the Hot Topic. ABC says that Joy Behar and Sherri Shepherd will discuss their separate weddings this summer. Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters and Elisabeth Hasselbeck will discuss how they spent their summer. maybe love will be their Hot Topic, too. the ABC chatfest, [...]

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Managing a business requires a very different set of skills to those needed for planning a business. this can be seen most clearly within franchise businesses whereby-with a good blueprint- franchise owners, who do not necessarily posses an in-depth history of business development, can manage very successful, ongoing enterprises. The blueprint-essentially a definition of the [...]

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The Klavierstcke N.9 by Karlheinz Stockhausen, with its characteristic repeated chords, obsessive trills and peculiar ending, is a highly characteristic and unmistakably idiomatic piece. Composed between 1955-1961, the piece exemplifies the composers intensive researches specially in the field of musical time. The article how time passes by the composer published few years before this piece [...]

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