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...sounds of the opera still rang in his ears, so he followed his longing to Italy, where he hoped to break onto the stage by entering singing competitions. He won the bass category of one contest and went on to make his debut in Milan in a production of La Boheme alongside the now legendary Luciano Pavarotti...
DIED. HOWARD MORRIS, 85, comedic actor who was the bantamweight, uninhibited fourth member of the most famous comic ensemble of TV's Golden Age, along with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca and Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows; in Los Angeles. His goofiness enhanced such roles as Ernest T. Bass, a would-be country Casanova on The Andy Griffith Show,and he went on to direct such TV shows as Hogan's Heroes, Bewitched and the Mel Brooks-Buck Henry spy spoof Get Smart...
...alarm rang almost two hours into yesterday morning's three-hour final for Social Analysis 78, Globalization and Its Critics, a popular class taught by University President Lawrence H. Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. Students were ushered outside--unsupervised--before being let back in to complete the exam...
...less than half the value of its net tangible assets. He also likes BIL International, a Singapore-listed company that owns thousands of acres in Hawaii that it may or may not succeed in developing; a hotel chain in London; and royalties from oil and gas production in the Bass Strait. Based on his "ultraconservative" appraisal of these hard-to-value assets, Wadhwaney thinks the stock trades for at least 30% less than it's currently worth. Then there's Liu Chong Hing Investments, which owns an exceptionally well-financed Hong Kong bank, as well as property in mainland China...
Wilson has been visited by lobbyists for universities and groups who advocate for sufferers of various diseases. Fellow Republican lawmaker Charles Bass of New Hampshire gave her a chapter from Hatch's 2002 memoir Square Peg, in which the Senator explained his own conversion on the stem-cell issue. But the most compelling appeal, Wilson says, has come from a House Democrat--James Langevin of Rhode Island, an abortion foe who is also a quadriplegic as a result of an accidental gunshot wound suffered when he was a teenager. "When Jim Langevin talks to you about this," says Wilson...