Recently, two culturally attuned Finns, Anu Kantola and her boyfriend, Raoul Grünstein, had dinner and an argument in Helsinki.
This darker side of Christmas explains a relatively new phenomenon: the "Blue Christmas," popularized in song by Elvis Presley, but recently "liturgized" in churches that have become attuned to the sadness that often accompanies Advent.
The work keeps her attuned to the fact that, as she told me recently, "patients are having a harder time than ever before obtaining abortion services".
For those of you not attuned to every attention-getting proclamation of Ann Coulter, she recently went on a 3.5-minute rant on The Today Show (Wednesday, January 7) about why single motherhood is the root of evil in society today.
A Fortune 500 C.E.O. recently told me that the Clinton-Gore administration has been much more attuned to the interests of high technology than Presidents Reagan and Bush.
Mr. Mofaz has presented himself as more attuned to social issues, but the center-left Labor Party under its recently elected leader, Shelly Yacimovich, is far more identified with the social struggle in Israel.
Adams, attuned to demographic changes that are more convulsive than any earthquake, recently taught himself Spanish, and his Nativity oratorio El Niño – which, when we first met in Vancouver 10 years ago, he called "my Messiah" – links the flight into Egypt with the harassment of Mexican "wetbacks" by the US border police.
As demonstrated most recently by Clinton's support among people of color in Nevada and South Carolina, she is attuned to race issues.
Mr. Obama has been highly attuned to the need to declare that the United States is not in what he recently called "an open-ended commitment" in Afghanistan.
Universities are becoming attuned to the promise of digital restoration; Columbia University, which offers a master's degree in historic preservation, recently hired Lowe to teach a course in its conservation lab.
