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When house hunters encounter the perfect palace, they typically must dash to the bank to arrange for financing before someone else snaps up their dream. Now comes perhaps the ultimate convenience for the charge-it generation: a silver-embossed piece of plastic signifying that the bearer has arranged a line of mortgage credit, which can be for as much...
...Crimson women flew sky high, as Rainey set an all-time Harvard record in the 200 meters at 24.5 seconds. Rainey placed second and Dowling came in fifth. In the 100 meter dash, Dowling took third and Michelle Davis placed fifth. Harvard's Katrina Posta and Allison Goodman finished second and third, respectively, in the 100 meter hurdles, and Co-Captain Nancy Lutz took second in the 400 meter intermediate hurdles...
...downhill part of a misbegotten event called the combined, not seen in the Olympics for 40 years. This oddity celebrates mediocrity by parlaying a shortened downhill, started below the regular downhill's two fierce initial bends, and two runs of an easier version of the slalom, a fast-turning dash through flagged gates. On the first slalom run Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged...
Mamboleo provided a stunning personal performance as she won the 55-m dash in 7.42 seconds, upsetting a heavily-favored Army field. The Yardling had trimmed her training schedule over the past week while nursing a painful pair of shin splints...
What would provide the most stimulating change of pace after Starlight Express's romance of the rails? For Andrew Lloyd Webber it was the sweep and dash of pure old-fashioned romance. He found it in French Novelist Gaston Leroux's 1910 thriller Le Fantome de l'Opera, long a standby for stage and screen adaptations (notably Lon Chaney's 1925 silent horror film). The version devised by Lloyd Webber and Librettist Richard Stilgoe dispensed with much of the novel's narrative superstructure to focus on two characters: the gruesomely disfigured genius who haunts the Paris Opera and the young...