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Although the initial port scene--flooded with whirling gypsies, swaggering sailors and cape-swirling bullfighters--is action-packed, the show loses some of its power by the Gypsy camp scene. Here, the Gypsy dances lag on; the onlookers seem bored rather than entertained; and Don Quixote's famous battle with the windmill fails to recreate the hilarity and excitement of the scene in Cervantes' masterpiece...
...four-year lag between the incident and a formal complaint was due partly to Joost's misunderstanding of Yale's sexual harassment policy...
...world headquarters of the international feminist conspiracy. The paradox is that all this grass-roots energy and commitment has never translated into hard political power: in 1992, the Year of the Woman, 3% of the Senate and 6% of the House of Representatives is female, proportions that lag embarrassingly behind most European nations...
...report states Asians, Latinos and Blacks generally lag behind white students in most areas of study, including math and English...
...hottest market segments. When buyers yearned for minivans, GM simply slapped new plastic panels on a seven-year-old chassis and rolled out the Chevy Lumina All-Purpose Vehicle. Result: while GM has made steady improvements in car quality, its selection and styling have tended to lag far behind its U.S. and Japanese rivals. "GM hasn't listened to its dealers," says an Atlanta Buick dealer. "They haven't paid any attention to the comments of the owners. We've had problems with supply and the design of the cars, and Ford and Chrysler and the Japanese have beaten...