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UConn--ranked eighteenth in the nation and first in New England--used a combination of excellent pitching and timely offense to overcome a strong pitching outing by tireless Harvard sophomore Julie "China" Fromholz...
...President Bok and Dean Jewett (the king and first minister) steal the vital power of deciding housing procedures from the masters (the feudal lords of Harvard), the university will inevitably degenerate into the same sort of rancorous discord that plagued eighteenth-century France...
Impeded at times by a fairly lame English translation of Da Ponto's libretto by Andrew Porter (I mean, would Susanna really call Figaro a "blockhead" in the eighteenth century?), it is Mozart in the end who gives us the most aural pleasure. Who can resist the remarkable closing scene of The Marriage of Figaro, in which Figaro and Susanna, the Count and Countess Almaviva, Marcellina and Bartolo and all other cast members join together in praise of love and happiness? It's a scene not to be missed, confirming Mozart's brilliance in choral writing and the Lowell House...
...Eighteenth-ranked North Carolina State routed Columbia in the season-opener for both teams Saturday in Raleigh...
...diatribe also deliberately misquotes, and lifts out of context, a comment I made in a discussion of a complex subject, namely, the paradoxical relationship between British conservatism and the abolitionist movement during the eighteenth century. My discussion was not an attack on British conservatism--the paradoxical reationship is an established historical fact--and only the most ignorant kind of extremist could misinterpret what I said in the way your reviewer...