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DIED. MIA SLAVENSKA, 86, prima ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; in Los Angeles. The classically trained, red-haired virtuoso was celebrated for her range, beauty and theatrical flair in such works as Giselle, Coppelia and a dance adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire...
...opportunities afforded through MIT’s ROTC program do not change the fact that official University policy prohibits the military from “maintaining, establishing or operating” an ROTC unit on the Harvard campus. The policy is, prima facie, a violation of the Solomon Amendment, and as such it is vulnerable to assault from the Pentagon...
...family man torn between home and office, the single woman married to her career whose eggs you can all but hear expiring one by one. The most intriguing character is star Tim Matheson's big-money anchor, because he is only half a cliche--he is a pompous prima donna but also a stand-up journalist...
...times every year when millions come together to do the same thing. The Super Bowl fits right into the evolution of Western culture, with roots in the Greek Olympics and the Roman gladiator games. But what will scholars of the future make of the Oscars, a spectacle of prima donnas, cinematographers, John Williams and a certain gladiator from New Zealand...
DeAraujo: I think you can’t completely fault Summers. Frankly, a lot of professors act like prima donnas, and I think they are the ones with thin skin and fragile egos. Rudenstine deferred a lot to the faculty—that is the way he did stuff. This way isn’t wrong, however. I don’t think we can just chalk this up as a character flaw...