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...veracity of the charges centers upon the exact duties of Geraldine Popko, the woman hired last summer to assist Nina Hillgarth, director of special students at GSAS, who is unofficially in charge of GSAS minority admissions activity...
...dead father's elder brother. A short, gentle-voiced man, he haunts his son Hugh's antiques store on Main Street, meeting all with old-fashioned manners and a memory that runs back, clear and voluminous, to the early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils of memory and hearsay that reach from the main stem back toward the Revolution, England and Ireland, Mr. Alton starts his own tale where he knows it to start-with calamity...
After four trials, Taliaferro was freed; and Nina Carter brought her children to Plains to be near her husband's brother there. Alton was 15, went to work in the store where he still works daily (then a general store), helped support his family on $25 a month, acquired the store in time, and saw Jimmy's father grow and pass him in success: "Everything Earl laid his hand down on, when he picked it up, there was three or four dollars. When he died he left about 4,000 acres of land and a heap of money...
...Prison in central Russia. Moved on Friday to a Moscow jail, the Russian began to suspect that something was afoot. But not until he was placed aboard a specially chartered Aeroflot jet bound for Zurích did he know that he had been freed. Bukovsky's mother Nina, his sister Olga and his nephew Mikhail were also flown to Switzerland to join him in exile. Simultaneously, Corvalán was snatched from prison near Santiago and put aboard a flight to Zurích with his wife Lilly. The solemn exchange took place on a remote runway nearly...
...that music in five to ten years, although she herself doubts it. For now it is enough that she sings Mozart (Cherubino in Figaro, Dorabella in Cost fan Tutte) with exquisite taste, control and sheen. Or that she can blend the impetuous and the spiritual so deftly as Nina in Thomas Pasatieri's The Seagull, or the childlike and the vulnerable so magically as the heroine of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande. Starring in Rossini's La Cenerentola with La Scala in Washington, D.C., last September, she displayed enough bravura vocal fireworks to suggest that Flicka also...