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...Brown delivered, closing out the contest with an emphatic strikeout to seal her second near-perfect game...
After the conference, the resident of the Portugese-speaking nation shocked the guest speaker with her near-perfect English. Later, Marques offered to help Cavallaro, a vegetarian, navigate the meat-heavy Brazilian restaurant scene. Language would further unite them, as their multilingualism allowed the pair to banter in what Cavallaro calls “Portuinglês.” But most important of all was their shared passion for advancing human rights across the globe...
...cannot be denied that the central tenets of the bill are controversial and politically-divisive; the near-perfect party-line vote late last year demonstrated that Republicans stiffly oppose the current, Democrat-dominated version of the bill. The politically expedient action to take now is to remove the provisions that make the bill most intolerable to Republicans in hopes that some middle ground can be reached. While neither party will be completely satisfied with the final product, the important thing is that it will stand the greatest chance of codification and will be most palatable to the general public while...
...look ahead to alternative rock and the last major epoch of indie rock, with a balance of shaggy guitar lines and feedback loops screwed against a subdued but gleeful pop framework. The band’s classic trilogy of mid-90s albums, cresting with 1997’s near-perfect “I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One,” paralleled the success of indie cohorts Pavement and Built to Spill, among others. And while the former burned out and the latter signed to Warner Brothers by the end of the decade, to this...
...sadly funny and wholly human in the hands of a capable team of actors and designers headed by director Marcus Stern. The phenomenal acting, skillful directing, and stunning creative vision of the play—which runs through March 15 at the Loeb Drama Center—produce a near-perfect experience of Beckett’s absurdist drama about nothing and everything. Will LeBow is Hamm, the blind leader of his twisted little family, which includes his servant Clov (Thomas Derrah) and immobile parents, Nagg (Remo Airaldi) and Nell (Karen MacDonald), who live in ashbins. Unable to move from...