Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private performance last weekend at Tufts University. Besides Bela, the band includes Victor Wooten on bass guitar, "Future Man" (Wooten's brother) on synthesized percussion and Jeff Coffin on sax. Victor Wooten has been voted Bass Player Magazine's "Bassist of the Year" for three years in a row. And it is little wonder why. His mastery of the instrument leaves you room for no other reaction than a open jawdrop as you let out a few nervous laughs, expecting the Apocalypse. This might seem like a strange statement, but this reviewer does not exaggerate the musicians' incredible technical virtuosity...
...Crimson, however, holds one crucial psychological ace in its bag of tricks. Last season, Trinity finished second at the NISRA Championships, losing to underdog Harvard in the finals for the second year in a row...
This is the eighth year in a row the rate of tuition growth has diminished. In the last 20 years the average rate of increase has hovered around 8 percent...
...most pressing practical concern of the bill is its inherent inability to prevent the executions of wrongly convicted inmates. Recently, Anthony Porter, an inmate on death row in Illinois, was freed merely two days before execution after a group of journalism students sought out and found the real killer. According to the Associated Press, Cellucci said the fact that Porter wasn't executed was proof the system works. The governor doesn't seem to realize that this kind of argument--that because private citizens took action to save a death row inmate, the death penalty system works--is completely absurd...
...seeing nothing special in what she did, as if the writing of great novels was child's play in the universe that so intrigued her. She wore her carpet slippers to parties and was forgiven. She was a great stylist, breaking all the literary rules: 18 adjectives in a row were as nothing to her, forever confounding my own advice to would-be writers to go sparingly, that one at a time is enough. Her novels flowed in a glittery stream from the first, Under the Net, in 1954, to the last, Jackson's Dilemma, in 1995, after which Alzheimer...