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...Most other white first moves fail to Rh6+-h8 or Rf1+-b1 stopping White’s b pawn. Chess: 2287 (a) e3 (b) h1 (c) a8 and mate by 1 Qc8 (d) g7....
...In this Vietnam-era story, a California family is imploded first by private tragedy, then by the war itself. Yet the author is a Brit writing about a time before she was born. You’d never know it....
...She offers ideas for the melody, maybe more than one. Then she records one. “At the time, Leonard had a little boom box in his kitchen, we’d listen to it there, on a cassette.”...
...Leonard Bernstein’s ravishing melodies are acquiring universality and timelessness, and Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics – “Some day, somewhere, we’ll find a new way of living” – are as inspiring to battle-scarred...
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