Word: brook
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...expectations have been set pretty high for this year’s Colgate team by national media, the squad did lose both its top goal scorer and a former all-league goalie. The good news? The Raiders’ team depth was their strength last year and the improved Brook Wheeler, who posted a 1.76 goals against average, is back between the pipes. They have finished seventh in the ECAC for three straight years, but might be able to close the gap with the upper echelon teams. On the other hand, Colgate has already lost this year to a Division...
...ironically, his embrace of state pre-eminence over federal authority meant he was sometimes hard to locate on the conservative-liberal spectrum. As political scientists Jeffrey Segal of Stony Brook University in New York and Harold Spaeth of Michigan State demonstrate in their book The Supreme Court and the Attitudinal Model, Rehnquist supported states' economic regulations 89% of the time when the regulations were pro-business and 88% of the time when they were anti-business. "No other Justice comes close to this sort of across-the-board deference" to the states, Segal said in an e-mail. "Most justices...
...restored the company's tradition of rotating repertory. Among the current offerings: Cyrano de Bergerac and an adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations. The highlight of the season, however, is Ciulei's final production as artistic director, an idiosyncratic and brilliant Dream that is probably the best since Brook...
Ciulei's vision, which downplays romance and sees courtship and marriage as raw struggles for power, owes much to Brook. But the insights into the characters, the reasoned resistance to happy endings and especially the mesmeric visual imagery are Ciulei's own. From the first moment, this Dream shows itself to be more about grim realities and revelatory nightmares. The captive Amazon Queen Hippolyta (Lorraine Toussaint), garbed as a soldier and coiffed with a Grace Jones-style Mohawk, stands mute yet defiant as the guards of Duke Theseus (Gary Reineke) surround her. They tear off her uniform and toss...
...wall in my study, watching me work and challenging me to find his strength in myself. It does not matter if he was created by Rembrandt or Joe Schmalz. The Man with the Golden Helmet is a part of my life and cannot be diminished. Bruce D. Anderson Bound Brook...