Word: maestro
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...fair to say that all the Chappell boys kicked on in their cricket. Trevor played three Tests; Australia has had no shrewder captain than Ian. Greg became a batting maestro, retiring in 1984 after scoring more than 7,000 Test runs at a superlative average against some of the most fearsome bowlers the game has seen. But just why he could play as well as he did is something he believes he grasped only recently. Those carefree boyhood games, he argues, amounted to more than just mucking about; they were the making...
...preparing his West End musical of The Lord of the Rings), is a world traveler from way back. Born A.S. Dileep Kumar, he began playing piano at 4, and when his father died five years later, the precocious child hit the road, touring the world with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. The family converted to Sufi Islam, and Dileep took the name Allah Rakha Rahman...
...years now, the grade-inflation hot seat has been almost exclusively Harvard’s to fill. Unflattering articles, television spots, even “20/20” maestro John Stossel have all lamented the steady rise in marks at America’s premier academic institution. But last Wednesday, Princeton grabbed some headlines of its own when the university announced its plan to deal with grade inflation at its New Jersey campus. We are glad that other schools are finally admitting that they, too, give out a lot of A’s—the PR problem...
Watch as The Maestro himself, senior Jesse Jantzen, takes down opponent after sorry opponent. If not, just take a peek at his thefacebook.com picture. He’s a maniac...
Next stop for the revival bus: Providence, and a date with Brown’s puck-smothering maestro, Yann Danis. The Bears won both regular-season meetings, but the Crimson is a new and improved incarnation of the club they saw at the end of January...