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Nine years after Cosette and company immigrated to the United States, it is safe to say that Alain Boubil's epic adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1500-page toms has a death grip on popular culture. It is the great international cry-fest, the teariest tear-jerker of them all. Its every laugh is tempered with reminders of the pre-revolutionary tribulations of France's lowest classes; and the jubilation of Valjean's victory over his past is mitigated by the despair of the students' doomed rebellion...
Ezra rounded the Crimson's award-fest by garnering Ivy League rookie of the Year Honors...
...than all the debates over the balanced-budget amendment and observations about the odd January weather combined, the high courtroom drama was the big payoff. But those who had cynically decided in advance that the so-called trial of the century would be nothing more than an interminable media fest were guilty of, to use Johnnie Cochran's new favorite phrase, ``a rush to judgment...
...Lady Rams scored the next five points, and the Crimson would not get the lead to less than 10 again until only 2:02 was left in the game. At that point, though, the Crimson had to revert to an intentional fouling fest and Rhode Island made 10 free throws in the last 1:35 to run away with the game...
Still on the sidelines in the Middle East peace fest, Syria's President Hafez Assad spurned Clinton and a chance to mend fences with Israel