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...night of Jan. 30, as the jury deliberated, Petrocelli was taut, his jaw rigid. It wasn't the wait or the fact that the jury had asked to examine key defense points. "Listen, I hate waiting," he said. "This is absolute torture. But they're looking at the evidence, and they're doing their job the way the criminal jury should have." What did disturb the plaintiffs was that two jurors from the criminal trial had sent letters to two jurors in the civil trial suggesting a meeting to help discuss their future financial options and recommending a particular agent...
William Schuman's Third Symphony occupied most of the second half of the program. This formally rigid piece demands a balance between strings and brass that was not always present in this performance. In the opening "Passacaglia and Fugue," to use the talk of the trade, the trumpets could have been shooting ducks out of the balcony. But this is only a quibble when one considers how carefully Previn articulated both crucial ingredients, the ground of the passacaglia and the subject of the fugue...
Consider all the steps the Colleges has taken over the past 30 months to keep decision-making authority as close to University Hall as possible: It removed the final shred of choice students had in upper-class housing selection; it imposed a rigid, centralized bureaucratic structure on Harvard's largest student organization; it rebuffed an attempt to make its Ad Board more accountable to students; it's dean of students threatened to intervene in a referendum administered by the students government; its dean of the College urged the Faculty--the Faculty! --to re-evaluate the students government, which should derive...
...neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages," he said. "But the embarrassing thing about this crisis is that Cerpa has become a sort of interlocutor between Fujimori and our economic problems. Maybe Fuji will listen to us a little more after this and not be so rigid...
...found in a Discovery Channel documentary that aired in October, as well as in four new books, three of them novels. Historian Steven Biel's Down with the Old Canoe argues against the notion that the Titanic's plummet marked the end of the age of innocence and of rigid class structure. "In my opinion," he writes, "the disaster changed nothing except shipping regulations...