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Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.
My wife changed her hairstyle from curly to straight and reported that while attending her annual professional association convention, she was shocked at the number of people who didn't recognize her.
The LAT , for example, reports that it includes legislation to carry out the Chemical Weapons Convention (previously passed by the Senate, but not implemented) as well as a measure to keep the world safe for airborne peanuts.
A piece trails Vice President Al Gore on his quest to raise $55 million by the 2000 convention.
Other issues: various Gore campaign blunders and the Reform Party leadership convention (really just another excuse to interview Minnesota Gov.