Hearing the harmonies, hearing those chords in the instruments, I was attracted more to the music.
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Virginia Brown,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Dec. 2025
Film scoring requires finding the right tone, rhythm, notes and harmonies to play the emotions and plot of the movie, while figuring out the complex mathematics all of it involves.
And as states started to abandon Common Core, school controversies began to focus less on standards and achievement than on competing understandings of America itself.
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Jonathan Zimmerman,
The Atlantic,
23 Dec. 2025
This ambitious agenda puts the spotlight on the country’s sports diplomacy, in which athletic endeavors serve as an arena for gaining influence, cultivating international leadership, interacting with foreign audiences, and facilitating conversations that can lead to better understandings.
The reviews were not so much glowing as incandescent; queues for concerts, hitherto often modest, now stretched around the block.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
The band survived through health scares, drug issues and changing moods in music, and remained together and vital until Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, performing over 2,300 concerts and selling over 35 million albums.
The third explores attempts by thinkers to use the concept of Asia to forge solidarities, which unraveled at the Asian Relations Conference in Delhi in 1947, when regional powers could not resolve their contradictions.
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Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
And as the Amistad insurgency brings out emphatically, this was a tale of conscious and purposeful action, driven by group solidarities, and the search for individual freedom and collective self-determination.
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