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DIED. WILT ("The Stilt") CHAMBERLAIN, 63, 7 ft. 1 in., "gentle giant" of the NBA and the only player to have scored 100 points in a game; of congestive heart failure; in Bel Air, Calif. (see EULOGY and ESSAY...
DIED. ALFREDO KRAUS, 71, lyric tenor known for his masterly bel canto roles; of pancreatic cancer; in Madrid. Kraus limited his repertoire, a policy that preserved his voice into his 60s. The selectivity cost him popularity but made him a connoisseur's delight. He sang with Maria Callas on the legendary live recordings of La Traviata in Lisbon...
...once a small prairie town of gold rushers and traders, where the biggest scare was getting hit by a prairie dog. Now it's a stretched finger of the big city, with aspiring families who don't lock their doors, enclaves with names like Coventry and Raccoon Creek and Bel Flower, scrubland turned into golf courses, houses than run anywhere from $75,000 to $5 million or so. There's an arch over a hallway in the high school engraved with a motto: "The finest kids in America pass through these halls...
Matt Spalding, a current Harvard Graduate School of Education student, is indirectly responsible, it seems, for our most recent constitutional crisis. He was described in Monica Lewinsky's book, "Monica's Story," as having dubbed Lewinsky "Big Mac" while at John Thomas Dye Elementary school in Bel Air, Calif. According to the text, the slight "was made all the more painful, because at the time she was harboring a schoolgirl crush on him." It became a "canker in her psyche." FM caught up with Spalding last week...
...Daydreamin.'" This groove-oriented, high-energy track played well in the arena, as did her finale, "Boy You Knock Me Out." An entertaining crowd-pleaser was a tightly choreographed dance to a medley of Will Smith songs, a nod to her past role as Ashley on "Fresh Prince of Bel...