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...Drowsy Chaperone. Rando festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with sight gags and sex appeal - 10 gals in bathing suits, courted by boys with press cards in their hat bands. The cast and orchestra, under the vigorous baton of Paul Gemignani, rise to the material, then skate on it. Garber does justice to one of the all-time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins?" (Mary had won his heart by revealing she makes the best corn muffins. When they reach the White House, Mary says she'll bake "corn muffins...
...course offerings to 141 this year. “That kind of change really underscores the fact that students will have access immediately to senior faculty,” Fitzsimmons added. Similarly, since 2002 the number of professors has increased from 635 to 703. Fitzsimmons said that the rise “also says very good things about accessibility and office hours, research opportunities, and mentor possibilities.” Harvard’s yield this year will likely once again top its peers. Last year, Harvard’s 78.5 percent bettered Yale’s 72 percent, Princeton?...
...other benefits, the officers “make good money.”‘NO MATTER WHAT...10 PERCENT ARE BAD’The department aims to dispel the belief that officers have a poor bedside manner, and many of the newcomers say they seek to rise above this.Jesse J. Snell of Blackstone, Mass., calls his new job a “noble profession.”“No matter what you’re doing, 10 percent are bad,” he says about every profession, adding that as a direct reflection...
...mouse research labs in two underground levels below the Biological Labs courtyard. The Northwest Laboratory Building, with its futuristic glass front, will face the museum complex on Oxford Street. And the ultra-modern Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering, designed by world-renowned Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, will rise behind the Science Center and feature what a University press release calls “an unusual pearlescent facade that changes subtly with the day’s lighting.”Together, the projects—to be completed by 2007—comprise the biggest component...
...McCarty, Florida's insurance commissioner, disagrees. He believes that homeowners across the board will pay more because of the storm. "The insurance companies are out there saying Katrina won't affect rates in their states, but that doesn't make sense," he says. "Demand for reinsurance is going to rise, supply is down, and that cost will be passed on to consumers." All this is academic, though, for the thousands of poor homeowners who did not have federal flood insurance and may have to rely on low-interest loans in order to rebuild...