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...most part, the Scottish town of Dunblane has been left to its grief. Certainly, the press showed up at the half-year anniversary to cover a memorial service, also attended by Prince Charles, in the small town's 13th century cathedral. But in the months since the March day when a failed youth leader named Thomas Hamilton strode into the Dunblane primary school with four legally owned handguns and began shooting--shooting until 16 children and one teacher were dead and Hamilton had put a bullet in his own head--the British media have observed an informal blackout, so that...
...different times, returned at different times. Some of those who left didn't return. My own experience was fairly typical. I arrived at mid-year, just after my 17th birthday, left just after my 18th birthday to join the army, and returned after the war. Our undergraduate experience was compressed as well as fragmented. Mine lasted six semesters, including two summer semesters, and occupied two calendar years with a two-and-a half-year break between them...
...golden age His guttural "s'all right" and squeaky "s'okay" have somehow remained part of the American comic vocabulary even as Senor Wences has faded from sight. Last week the ventriloquist quietly celebrated his 100th birthday with family in Manhattan before taking off for his customary half-year in his native Spain. Senor Wences was a staple on TV for three decades, starting on the Ed Sullivan Show, where he conducted absurd conversations with his dummy Pedro, his puppet Cecelia the chicken, or the blond-wigged Johnny, a face he painted on his hand, moving thumb and index finger...
...important point, the Navy insists, is that the Eisenhower operated more than efficiently. During a busy half-year stint, the Ike suffered no decline in combat readiness. With more than 400 women in its crew of 5,000, the ship was deployed off the coast of Haiti for the U.S. intervention last September; it then steamed to the Middle East in October, when Saddam Hussein marched Iraqi troops to the Kuwaiti border. In December it was posted in the Adriatic, where its jets patrolled the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the cruise, the ship performed "as well...
...Guardsman. March 10 through April 9.Huntington Theatre Company, 264 Huntington Ave.,Boston. 266-0800 or 931-ARTS. Set in Budapest,Hungary before World War I, this play is about aflamboyant, talented actor and his equally famousand strong-willed actress wife, known for becomingrestless after a half-year of commitment to themen of her life...