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...Francisco Opera has done its best by Previn's first opera: Colin Graham's direction is crisp, Michael Yeargan's sets are suitably sleazy, and Renee Fleming pours heart and soul into the role of Blanche DuBois. But Previn's well-bred score barely hints at the dark crosscurrents of obsession and desperation that made Tennessee Williams' play so naggingly memorable. This slow-moving Streetcar is tonal but tuneless, sometimes violent but never sexy. Even the bluesy bits are oddly polite--an unexpected letdown from a composer-conductor who plays first-rate jazz piano on the side. Let's face...
...White House was cautiously welcoming; Democratic firebrands were more skeptical. "There is no genuine bipartisan conversation yet," said Rep. Barney Frank. Still, four of Frank's more moderate Judiciary colleagues -- Bill Delahunt and Howard Berman for the Dems, Asa Hutchinson and Lindsey Graham for the GOP -- have started lunching together to see if they can't whip this committee into Watergate-like shape. The House, divided against itself, may yet stand...
...Mango, which can call only one number, have been sold: principally to parents, who give them to their children so the children can regularly phone home--especially those serving in the army. Sven-Christer Nilsson, president of Ericsson, recently observed that it took about 120 years from Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the conventional telephone to wire up 1 billion customers worldwide. Current estimates by mobile operators suggest the same number of mobile subscribers could be online by the year 2005. Little wonder that traditional computer companies are scrambling to enter the mobile business. Bill Gates, whose...
...Graham T. Allison, Jr. '62, director of the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, called for Americans to "refocus on what matter to us most: weapon containment." Allison advised that the United States government purchase nuclear warheads from Russia...
...awesome and is going to be an unbelievable asset to all the Harvard programs with the weight room," said Women's Tennis Coach Gordan Graham. "It will help immensely with recruiting. It's like going from the poor house to the penthouse...