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...French fare the company has traditionally presented, he plans a foray into the German repertoire with new productions of Richard Strauss's operas as well as Wagner's Ring cycle, the calling card of major opera companies worldwide. "We chose him because he is a consummate musician," says Patricia L. Mossel, the company's executive director. "He knows voices. He is a very fine pianist. He knows the singers firsthand, having sung with them. What better person to cast and choose repertoire...
...year-old JonBenet, the Little Miss Colorado whose battered body was found in the basement of her parent's Boulder home the day after Christmas, the mystery of her death has only become more confusing. Boulder police have not named a suspect, while JonBenet's parents, John and Patricia, are now communicating with investigators only through their lawyers and a media consultant. And as a side effect of the intense scrutiny the case is receiving, JonBenet's world--the glittering, multimillion-dollar world of children's beauty pageants--has been thrust onto a stage...
...JonBenet and her mother, Patricia Ramsey, a former Miss West Virginia, the contests may have been good fun. For pageant organizers, they often mean big bucks. Throughout the country, especially in California and the South, a complex network of pageant systems, as they are called, make up the circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under...
What happened in Boulder on Christmas night was, among other things, proof that tragedy honors no boundaries. Of course we knew that, but one continues to hope. I read in a magazine once that Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl decided to leave Manhattan after their son Theo was brain damaged in a car accident; his nanny was pushing him across the street in a carriage when a taxi jumped the light. Deciding Manhattan was not a safe place to raise kids, they moved to a farmhouse 30 miles outside of London. A year later, their daughter Olivia died...
Workers stationed at "T" stops in Harvard, Porter and Central Squares and at the Cambridge hospital handed out "survival kits" filled with chewing gum, raisins and information on how to quit permanently for smokers who wanted to quit for the day, according to Patricia M. Anderson of the Tobacco Control Program...