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...into the dance patterns of people her age 300 miles away. Lou DeSera, Carmen Jimenez, Carole Scaldeferri, Rosemarie "Little Roe" DiCristo - do they sound like characters on "The Sopranos"? They were just ordinary kids, with extraordinary luck of being in Philadelphia at the moment the old town lit the fuse for the rock explosion...
...last Thursday for Slobodan Milosevic. It was St. Vitus' Day, a date steeped in Serbian history, myth and eerie coincidence: on June 28, 1389, Ottoman invaders defeated the Serbs at the battle of Kosovo; 525 years later, a young Serbian nationalist assassinated Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, lighting the fuse for World War I. And it was on St. Vitus' Day, 1989, that Milosevic whipped a million Serbs into a nationalist frenzy in the speech that capped his ascent to power...
...explosive and forbidding." Yet colleagues say his reputation as the angry old man of British theater is unfair, even if he did turn down a knighthood from Prime Minister John Major saying, "I would not accept such recognition from a Conservative government." "He's passionate, with a very short fuse," says Hall, "but he's also extremely warm and kind." Ian Holm recalls starring in Moonlight in 1993. The night the author attended, nobody dared laugh at the jokes. "He couldn't understand it," remembers Holm. "And his wife [author Antonia Fraser] said, 'Harold, they're scared...
...seemingly disparate committee members will have to hang together until December 19?hen their report is due to University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers?nd last week? meeting marked the beginning of the group? mission to fuse economic principles with concepts of moral responsibility to form a viable set of recommendations about how Harvard should pay its poorest workers...
...during the uncertain days at the beginning of the sit-in, all it might have taken to turn the protest quite ugly was a single shove by a tired, overworked police officer. In such a tense situation, with both parties weary and tempers surely on a short fuse, HUPD managed the sit-in in a way that showed its respect and care for Harvard’s students. HUPD’s conduct over the course of the protest was a true tribute to the department’s professionalism...