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...inability of a news organ to be sure that it has not been used was cited last week by the West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then...
Giselle, a young girl with a weak heart, has two flaws that ultimately overstrain her fragile organ. She can neither resist dancing nor the attentions of Count Albrecht, a nobleman disguised in peasant garb. While her insistence on dancing threatens her health, Giselle is finally overcome after learning her lover's true identity. As it turns out, he is not only a count, but he is betrothed to another woman. Appropriately, Giselle goes mad and dies of a broken heart...
...Committee on Standards, the disciplinary organ of the college, had a hearing scheduled on the case, according to Kery Clark, the university's counsel, but when the attorney general issued the subpoenas, the hearing was postponed in keeping with a school policy deferring to the legal system...
...Corporation, formally known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College, is Harvard's highest administrative organ--save the largely ceremonial Board of Overseers--but instead of getting involved in the day-to-day affairs of the University, it concentrates on long-range planning and only takes direct responsibility for major financial matters...
...could have predicted that a tone poem based on Friedrich Nietzsche's notions of the death of God, the will to power and the rise of a superman would become one of symphonic literature's greatest hits? Yet long before Director Stanley Kubrick popularized its spectacular organ and brass apostrophe in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Strauss's blazing essay in orchestrational virtuosity ranked high in audiences' esteem. Maazel and the Viennese give this mettle tester a commanding reading, capturing the grandeur of its arresting introduction, the suavity of its incongruous waltz and the enigma...