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Defending champion and number one tournament seed Florida will play the winner of the Pepperdine (16th) and Texas (17th) match. Look for the Longhorns to advance to a second round death sentence against Florida...
...compelled to comment on the running of the 17th Harvard Raft Race last Sunday. During the conduct of this event. large quantities of garbage and non-biodegradable pollutants were thrown into the already sufficiently dirty Charles River. Should such an environmentally unsatisfactory event have been sponsored by my military organization, loud (and proper) objections would quickly have been made by environmentalists, students and the media. In reading your May 2nd edition, the coverage of this ecological disaster implies that Harvard University not only condones this behavior, but participates at the executive level. I am saddened by this observation...
...Destino -- an urban mural of children's faces -- is all dour style, a Bugsy Malone in Nighttown. The Bruce Beresford segment, from Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience at Rameau's Les Boreades, then neglected to develop his night-at-the-opera sketch with any coherence. Derek Jarman's episode, to Charpentier's Louise, imagines an old diva taking a final curtain call, her mind garlanded with fading memories. Sweet but frail...
...evening session in the House of Commons was nearly over when Labor Member Ron Brown did the unforgettable -- and unforgivable. Frustrated by the government's tax policies and cuts in welfare spending, Brown roared down from his back-bench seat, hurled papers at a minister, then grabbed the 17th century ceremonial mace that rests at the center of the Commons and threw it to the floor. The nearly 5-ft.-long staff, part of the Crown Jewels, is a cherished symbol of Parliament's rule...
...17th annual race, which will be held Sunday at 12:30, is "basically one massive fight" where "people will consume massive quantities of alcohol," said Alex Frenkel '89, co-organizer of the competition...