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...Sepulce scene from Manon, a passionate encounter between lovers in a monastery, brings on the prima donna "Vera Galupe-Borszkh," a.k.a. "La Dementia." Wearing a colossal red fright wig and more lipstick than Lucille Ball, she commands the stage like Bette Midler on Benzedrine, casting her stratospheric soprano to the bleachers as it veers between ear-splitting fortissimos and never-ending pianissimos...
...Donna D. Kim '96 said her boyfriend believes he's entitled to a refund since the dance ended 10 minutes early, as it has in recent years. "My boyfriend said that since that's one twenty-fourth of the dance, he should get $1.12 back for our tickets...
...City policy that banned funding to international organizations that promoted comprehensive family planning, and signed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to ensure that women and their doctors can enter clinics without fearing intimidation and violence. And the Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Donna Shalala, implemented a change to the Hyde Amendment obligating states to pay for abortions for poor women whose pregnancies result from rape or incest, or endanger the life of the mother...
Home-school parents retort that the socialization children experience in schools is not necessarily healthy: it may be competitive, even intimidating and violent. "I do not think that gang membership is proper social development," says Donna Nichols-White, who has home schooled her three children after having to teach herself how to write. "Whenever people mention the problem of gang membership, I mention that the common factor amongst all gang members is that they attended school at some time in their lives...
...chastened Clinton Administration, obviously aware that the next Congress is certain to be even less friendly than the current one, admitted that the 1995 version of health-care reform will resemble a fullback plunge and not this year's long bombs. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala told reporters a scaled-back approach was the only politically viable option, since voters "told us they were very gun-shy over taking on the whole system, every aspect of it. They would like it to be in stages and see what the implications are of each piece as we move along...