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...Princess Di. In the popular mind, celebrity trumps virtue every time. And consider Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, tormented in life by Stalin, his patron and jailer. Prokofiev had the extraordinary bad luck of dying on the same day as the great man, "ensconcing him forever in the tyrant's shadow," wrote critic Sarah Kaufman of the Washington Post, "where he remains branded as a compromised artist...
...land bridge between South America and Mexico, has become a major transit route for over 75% of cocaine moving from Colombia up through Mexico and into the U.S. The fallout from the ongoing investigations, now being conducted with the help of U.S. FBI agents, will surely cast a shadow over the visit later this month of President Bush to Guatemala, his second-to-last stop on a five country tour of Latin America...
...wrote in a 2000 memoir that his childhood spent living in the shadow of Radcliffe Yard (where the Schlesinger Library named for Schlesinger, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger now stands) was “a generally sunny time,” occupied by the exchange of letters with prominent Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken and his parents’ Sunday teas that entertained Harvard professors and students alike...
...stabbing, intoxicated underage girls, secretive nightclub managers, and a sausage vendor conveniently located in the shadow of a blood-stained parking garage have come together in a strange tale. Although this might sound like the plot of a 99-cent mystery novel, such elements actually make up the story behind the new restrictions Boston has placed on clubgoers throughout the city. Last New Year’s Eve weekend, Boston began enforcing a ban prohibiting those under the age of 21 from attending clubs after 11 p.m., essentially limiting the club scene to the over-21 crowd.A CIVIC RESPONSESafety concerns...
...wrote in a 2000 memoir that his childhood spent living in the shadow of Radcliffe Yard (where the Schlesinger Library named for Schlesinger, Sr. and his wife Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger now stands) was “a generally sunny time,” occupied by the exchange of letters with prominent Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken and his parents’ Sunday teas that entertained Harvard professors and students alike...