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Several things are wrong with this amiably unpretentious fable. First, after repeatedly failing to reach Broadway, the creators have opted for a postage- stamp stage in lower Manhattan. The sets are mostly paintings on roller- drops, slowly uncoiling to the floor ("It looks like we're in the 19th century," admits one of the team privately), and choreographer Peter Gennaro has no room to move. The use of Theoni Aldredge's Broadway-budget costumes just makes the surrounding skimpiness look worse...
Harris' path to resignation was anything but straight. "There have been so many twists and turns in our policy that it's been a real roller-coaster ride," he says. Considered energetic and capable by his superiors, he proved unusually outspoken for a mid-level Foreign Service officer. In April he and 11 colleagues wrote a letter to Christopher urging military intervention to help the Muslims; the missive somehow leaked to the New York Times. In May, when Christopher asked the allies to lift the arms embargo against the Bosnian government and bomb Serb targets, "we were excited that...
...Harvard department of athletics said the Special Olympics had told them that about 8,000 spectators attended the events, which at Harvard included track and field, softball, volleyball, power lifting, tennis, roller skating and aquatics. There was one event completely unaffected by the weather--volleyball, which took place in posh Shad Hall, the Business School athletic complex usually restricted to Business School affiliates and some Allston residents...
Others were not so lucky, but still said they thought the competition was going well. "It's very hot," Mark Maynard, who took a gold in figures and dance roller skating, said of the atmosphere in the Bright Hockey Arena, where the event was held...
...Last week, the president-elect described the last days in his home state as an emotional roller coaster ride. At times, he said, he was overcome with tears for no apparent reason . . ." -- HOUSTON CHRONICLE...