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...highs and lows are, well, too high and low. Bass-baritone George London contends the Banner is "impossible to sing if you're sober." Opera singers have the best chance to cover the octave plus a fifth. But the soprano who starts a half-note too high will shatter glass and her hopes of auditioning for the Met by the time she gets to the "land of the free." She can forget getting deep enough for the "twilight's last gleaming...
Figuring that the Goliaths could easily shatter the world frog-jumping record of 21 ft. 5 3/4 in. (set in three hops in 1986 by Rosie the Ribbiter, a 1-lb. bullfrog), Koffman entered three of them in this May's 62nd annual Jumping Frog Jubilee at Angels Camp, Calif., site of Twain's tale. Though the California department of fish and game temporarily barred the superfrogs from the state as "undesirable," Koffman will try to convince the bureaucrats that the Goliaths pose no danger -- except perhaps to the pip-squeak American competitors in the Calaveras jump...
...bill currently before the Israeli Knesset, however, threatens to shatter such illusions of an Israel with a democratic core. The "Third Amendment to the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance of 1948" was passed by the Knesset on its first reading in May, and is expected to pass again at its second and final reading sometime this month...
...contrast was stupefying. In December 1981, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was arrested along with more than 6,000 fellow union members in a martial-law crackdown that seemed to shatter their movement and, with it, all hope of freedom and reform in Communist Poland. Last week Walesa found himself at the center of a very different situation. His forces had just whipped the Communist Party in the country's first truly democratic elections since 1947, causing a constitutional logjam that for the moment left unclear exactly how and by whom Poland would be governed. Walesa, 46, his trademark mustache...
...Communist wipeout threatened to shatter the delicate power-sharing agreement that the party and Solidarity negotiated earlier this year. Not only was there a fear of backlash from angry Communist hard-liners opposed to compromise, but there was also a serious question of how the country could be governed when its ruling party had been overwhelmingly rejected by the electorate...