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...many people showed up that an additional performance had to be scheduled to accommodate the 10,000 ticket seekers. In Warsaw, one of the biggest crowds ever to pack National Philharmonic Hall cheered and clapped for ten minutes. In Venice's San Giorgio church, where applause is forbidden, clergy and audience alike burst into a spontaneous ovation that one priest excused as "homage our Lord would surely want us to pay." The acclaim was neither for a renowned solo ist nor an old master, but for the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke by Polish...
...direction. Its grade-point requirement for freshmen on athletic scholarships is 1.7-. 1 higher than the N.C.A.A.'s own. Big Ten schools are limited to a total of 30 foot ball scholarships for freshmen each year -as compared with 50 for the University of Texas. They also are forbidden to "redshirt" prospects-putting them on a five-year program, keeping them out of action as sophomores in order to beef them up. Redshirting is common practice in the Southeastern Conference, the Southwest Conference, the Pacific Eight, the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Midwest's Big Eight...
...Michigan State, the only Big Ten school that was still undefeated last week (after downing Michigan, 20-7), insists that all his friends are amateurs. What's more, their civil rights are being violated by the academic requirements and anti-redshirt rules. Said Duffy: "You aren't forbidden to play in the band if you don't graduate in four years...
...streets, bearing in their arms the scrolls of the Torah as they celebrated the end of the thanksgiving period of Sukkot.* The dancers were mostly men, but a few congregations allowed women to join in and carry the scrolls-to the bitter disapproval of the Orthodox. Women are forbidden to touch the Torah by an injunction of Halakah, that vast body of law that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously "the law" and "the way" in Hebrew, is considered by many to be the essence of Judaism...
...more importantly, the CDC issued pre-primary endorsements (which county and state party committees are forbidden to do), hoping to end the self-destructive internecine warfare of the previous decades. It was thought that candidates defeated at the CDC convention would quietly withdraw from the primary and for the party...