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...that CARL SAGAN was honored with a 50-mile-wide crater on Mars. And the names Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Caliban and Sycorax for five moons of Uranus make sense, since the planet's other moons are mostly named for characters in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even a moonlet called Petit-Prince is defensible, since it orbits the asteroid Eugenia--and the son of Empress Eugenie and Napoleon III had that rather literal name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Power | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...last of the firsts. A paradox of sorts. Well, really, a ballet of sorts. The Festival of Firsts ends tonight. Performances include the company premiere of Le Jeun Homme et la Mort, with music by Johann Sebastian Bach and choreography by Roland Petit, and the world premieres of Bachianas, choreography by Daniel Pelzig, and Corybantic, choreography by Christopher Wheeldon of the New York City Ballet. The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNDAY MAR 14 | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Girls in pink! Guys in leotards! Boston Ballet presents the Festival of Firsts, featuring the premiere of Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and other world premieres by Daniel Pelzig and the New York City Ballet's Christopher Wheeldon. The Wang Center, 270 Tremont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONDAY MAR 8 | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...reason Shalit is garnering so much attention has to do with, well, who she is: a petit, pretty 23-year-old who has already been labeled brilliant by the likes of conservative icon Norman Podhoretz. The youngest of three sisters from a suburb of Milwaukee, Wis., Shalit first gained national attention in 1995 as a sophomore at Williams College, when she wrote a piece for Commentary (later reprinted in Reader's Digest) attacking the school's coed bathrooms. But her precocity did not necessarily make her Miss Popularity. Her conservative views made her so despised by many on campus that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modestly Provocative | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...Scott 3-14 4-5 12; Clemente 8-190-0 22; Fisher 2-10 1-5 5; Hill 6-15 4-5 16;Dexter 1-4 2-2 4; Coleman 0-1 1-2 1; Lewis 0-0 0;Ewing 0-0 0. TOTALS 21-68 14-21 65.YALE: Petit 2-6 2-2 8; Whitley 1-13 4-7 7;Tompkins 6-7 5-7 17; Ricketts 3-9 2-2 8; Simpkins5-8 6-7 16; Cavaco 0-0 0; Hunterton 2-2 4-4 9;Yanke 0-0 3-4 3; Williams...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men's Hoops Falls to Bears, Bulldogs | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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