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...short, Harvard athletics has a bona-fide dynasty on its hands when it comes to the men and women's squash teams. And everyone--even those dreaded Yalies--are resigned to that fact...
...week turn as a soused college student in 1913's The Misleading Lady to the rethinking of his 1955 box-office smash Damn Yankees for its current revival. In between were well over 100 productions in which George Abbott was named somewhere in the program, including a succession of bona fide classics: Where's Charley?, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pal Joey. All of them were marked by what came to be known as the "Abbott touch," which eschewed psychological depth for a seamless, balletically precise progression of word, movement...
...terrifyingly popular Seattle-based rock group Pearl Jam has released just three full-length albums but has already ripped through all the stages of rock stardom in record time. The group has sung about restless youth (the song Jeremy became a bona fide rock anthem), it has established an adversarial relationship between itself and everyone else on the planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done...
...system my companion was interested in, even though the particular production lines were temporarily shut down. But why, demanded the factory director, had we come to the far reaches of Russia, when a certain East European country had similar units for sale? The answer established my companion's bona fides: his client, a Middle East country, wanted to buy those very units and after months of negotiation reached a satisfactory price. But a shuffle of ministers ushered in a new set of officials, who also demanded to be cut in on the deal, making the price too high...
...loan that the Governor had made to his own campaign fund the previous year (making personal loans to their campaigns is a common practice among politicians). There is some suspicion that at least part of the money may have come from Madison's depositors rather than from bona fide individual contributors...