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NOTEBOOK: Goalie Bill Blood has joined Alberto Villar on the injury list, having injured his knee in practice. On the credit side of the ledger, Lorenzo diBonaventura was back in action on the four-man back line, fully recovered from his injury. Freshmen Robert Fritz and Peter Walsh, who just joined the varsity, both saw some action. Walsh replaced Weinfurtner in the nets for the last 15 minutes, despite suffering from some knee problems himself. The booters take on the Alumni, Saturday...
...when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really a man to engender affection, at least won broad respect when he came back from Peking and Moscow in 1972 with solid entries in his ledger...
Charpentier: Te Deum, Magnificat (King's College Choir, Cambridge, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philip Ledger, conductor; Angel). Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) wrote brilliant religious music for Louis XIV that is seldom heard today. This recording celebrates Charpentier's majestic trumpet flourishes and garlands of intertwined, polyphonic passages. The resplendent voices of the King's Choir-recorded in the King's College 500-year-old chapel, with its perfect acoustics-would have pleased the Sun King...
Cornell extended its winning streak to 13 games and more than likely assured itself of home ice in the ECAC playoffs. The Big Red maintain a convincing hold on second place with a 14-4-1 ledger in the ECAC. Cornell also tightened its grip on the Ivy League championship last night by upping its Ivy record...
...three central figures (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) do not entirely pay off. Still, these scenes help motivate the film's central incident, a robbery of their own union's safe in which the three turn up not the cash they wanted but a ledger hinting at various forms of venality and corruption. Their attempts to capitalize on the information are ambiguous: they would like to blackmail some money out of the union local, but knowing their leaders are corrupt also stirs reformist impulses in them, and it is their contrary feelings that provide the film...