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...sink his teeth into the Lear-like, madness Titus teeters toward, but he does manage to convince as a brave, basically well-meaning guy who nature probably intended to be a hero. Amaechi chooses to take a playful, goblin-like approach to the treacherous, unrepentant Aaron, which tends to diminish him as a personification of pure evil: he's more Puck than Iago. Jason Mills '99 plays Marcus, the faithful brother and sole figure of reason, as a semicomic counter to Titus, but has a moment of unexpected resonance when he discovers the raped and mutilated Lavinia--a moment that...
...tunes of the 19th century waltz king after whom Rieu's orchestra is named. "When I want a melody/ Lilting through the house,/ Then I want a melody/ By Strauss," Ira Gershwin wrote in 1936, and six intervening decades of swing, rock and hip-hop have done nothing to diminish the truth of his words. Handsome fiddlers come and go, but Strauss, it seems, is here to stay...
...same time, there are other chapters that recognize that we have to do something in the fraternity system both to change our image and to diminish the influ- influence that alcohol has on fraternity life," Martin added...
...Mosenergo the only electricity supplier to more than 16 million people in the Moscow region, but it furnishes more than 80% of their heat as well. The company owns 21 electric power stations, with a generation capacity of 14,690 MW. Demand for Mosenergo's services is unlikely to diminish anytime soon...
...Stewart added that a high price tag does not diminish the importance of a college education...