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...based all-male company called La Gran Scena. This rare -- and rarefied -- troupe recognizes that opera thrives on the tension between the sublime and the silly. After all, when a 200-lb. soprano trips down the castle steps trilling like a 1-lb. canary in the mad scene in Lucia di Lammermoor, should one weep at her character's insanity or howl at the absurdity? La Gran Scena's answer is: both. As they see it, loving opera and laughing at it are one and the same thing...
Despite his many ties is Washington, when Harvard called, its alumnus listened. He also must deal with the inconvenience of moving two young children--Christopher, six, and Lucia, three--and uprooting wife Lisa Adams from her job as an interior designer for a prominent D.C. architecture firm...
Rowe is married to Lisa Adams, a Yale-educatedinterior designer who has worked with the homelessin Washington, and has two children: Christopher,6, and Lucia...
...disinformation was Melissa Larson, 37, a jewelrymaker from Taos, New Mexico. For two weeks prior to her arrival, worried mothers had been passing on the story that someone had seen the butchered cadavers of eight children. For undisclosed reasons Larson was detained by police on March 7 in Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa, 55 miles south of Guatemala City. An angry crowd of several hundred people soon gathered outside the jail, shouting, "Hang the gringa!" forcing police to evacuate Larson to another jail. The enraged rioters burned down the police station, set fire to vehicles and fought police until tanks rolled...
Investigators believe the incidents were planned by one group. Diplomatic sources say two military intelligence agents were reported among the rioters in Santa Lucia. "The only institution with the capacity to act in various areas of the country, that can spread the rumors and incite the population through a vast network of civilian collaborators, is the army," contends a local human-rights expert...