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		<title>More Than an Adagio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Samuel Barber was born a hundred years ago today.  If he had only written Knoxville: Summer of 1915 he would still be important in my book.  It is the perfect marriage of music and text, namely, James Agee&#8217;s recollections of his childhood.
But Barber, of course, wrote much more.  Yesterday, for example, I listened to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/09/more-than-an-adagio/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Tonight there&#8217;s calling strangers&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know who The Swell Season are, but, God bless them, they&#8217;ve done the best cover of &#8220;Drive All Night&#8221; ever.  The singer absolutely understands what this great song is about. He even drags out the word &#8220;lives&#8221;, which is essential.
 
A live full-band version exists, too, and it is just as good.
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		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/07/tonight-theres-calling-strangers/</link>
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		<title>Bad Fences, Good Neighbors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Frost&#8217;s &#8220;Mending Wall&#8221; may tell us that &#8220;good fences make good neighbors&#8221;, but I am not so sure.  I have a pretty shoddy fence, but my neighbors are all fine people.  Just this afternoon, my neighbors Trish and Andy helped me move some very heavy furniture.  When she saw the truck in my driveway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/06/bad-fences-good-neighbors/</link>
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		<title>Restoring the AR-3a</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ As I wrote recently, I am lately the proud and lucky owner of a pair of vintage AR-3a loudspeakers.  Acoustic Research manufactured many models of speakers from the 1950s on, but the 3a is considered their finest achievement, and one of the best loudspeakers ever made in America.  But it was also very expensive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/05/restoring-the-ar-3a/</link>
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		<title>Dignity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished watching the most recent Frontline episode, entitled &#8220;The Suicide Tourist&#8221;.  It was, simply put, the most powerful and affecting thing I have ever seen on television.  I write this with tears in my eyes, and an entirely new perspective on physician assisted suicide.
The program documents a man named Craig Ewert, who, five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/04/dignity/</link>
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		<title>The Olympic Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The 2010 Winter Olympics concluded this week, and I could hardly have watched more of them if I wanted.  I tuned in every night for two weeks, and even though there were sports I didn&#8217;t care to see (snowboarding, ice dancing, etc.), and even though I wish NBC weren&#8217;t so captivated by a cult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/04/the-olympic-games/</link>
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		<title>Protected: The Sunday Show: February 28</title>
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		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/03/the-sunday-show-february-28/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Price of Stamps Will Rise Ever Higher.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Postmaster General reported today that the United States Post Office is losing money, and will continue to lose money unless changes are made to the agency&#8217;s postage rates and delivery schedules.  Apparently, the Post Office has experienced a steady drop in the quantity of mail.  I must say I find that hard to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/03/02/the-price-of-stamps-will-rise-ever-higher/</link>
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		<title>Living in the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Fifty years ago, if you had asked any American kid what the future would look like, he probably would have told you we&#8217;d have flying cars, robot butlers, jet packs, and so on.  He wouldn&#8217;t have predicted we&#8217;d all be fatter than ever, sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, driving cars that look much less cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/02/24/living-in-the-future/</link>
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		<title>They Also Deserve a Gold Medal for Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though I love Olympic figure skating, ice dancing generally leaves me cold.  I keep waiting for jumps and throws, but they never come.  Furthermore, ice dancers seem to choose the worst music to skate to.  Not so Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from Canada.  They won last night by skating to the Adagietto from Mahler&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danajohnhill.com/dana/2010/02/23/they-also-deserve-a-gold-medal-for-taste/</link>
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