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Adam J. Levitin '98 is a Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations/History Concentrator living in Currier House...
...total effect commanded attention as well. Under assistant conductor Channing Yu '93, the piece in its lusher moments evoked the fine string writing of Vaughan Williams. Yu has a knack for the Spanish dance idiom--one hopes that he will conduct Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" in the near future. The members of the orchestra were more than up to the task of the furious coda, never letting its fast tempo mar their phrasing...
...truth is, we are afraid of cloning for very good reasons, but the possibility of human cloning is not really one of them. Wilmut touched a raw nerve in the public consciousness, but not because he threatens to duplicate people anytime in the near future...
Gore's visit last April to a Buddhist temple near Los Angeles is certain to occupy a good part of the forthcoming congressional hearings. His shifting stories about whether he knew it was a fund raiser were followed by the disclosure two weeks ago that his office had been warned by the National Security Council to exercise "great, great caution" toward the proposed visit. The Vice President's office has acknowledged that Gore's senior political aide, David Strauss, discussed the event with the party's fund-raising division...
...stakes are obviously nowhere near as high for the performer who, Pistone says, "captured me 100%--my mannerisms, my walk, my talk." Nobody is going to car-bomb an actor who bombs; the worst he's going to suffer is bad reviews and, conceivably, a drop in his asking price. Even so, the evidence suggests that Depp is a man who comes into sharp focus and, more important, attains full life only when he loses himself in a role. The first time director John Badham met the actor he intended to cast in his thriller Nick of Time...