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Harvard's depth has been decimated by injury (Phillips and Keith joined freshmen Cara James and Kelly Black on the injured list), and its inexperience (among the eight that played, four were sophomores and one was a freshmen) shone through during the game in the form of turnovers and lack of cohesion on the court...
...midshipmen at Annapolis shone as brightly as Joseph Steffan. He not only ranked among the top 10 in his class at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1987 but as a battalion commander, had under his command one-sixth of the school's students. Then, just six weeks before graduation, Steffan told a fellow midshipman that he was gay. Although there was no evidence that Steffan had ever engaged in a homosexual act, a disciplinary board determined that his sexual orientation was reason enough for discharge. Academy officials downgraded Steffan's military performance from A to F, and Steffan was forced...
Hovahness' hypnotic "Prayer of St. Gregory" was as etheral as its name implies. The strings shone, the seconds lending an undulating underpinning to the melody. In several spots 'hanging' half-decrescendos followed crescendos and were followed by a second crescendo, swelling and breathing, breathy and lively. A particularly animated Christ inhaled loudly and gestured extravagantly with the music, seemingly as enraptured as the audience...
...Aspin shone during the Gulf War, when he accurately predicted one week before the air attacks that "prospects are high for a rapid victory with light to moderate casualties." His casualty projections for the allied forces were far below the Pentagon's own figures -- and were right. He told Bush he supported the operation but warned it would require congressional approval. Within days, Bush sent a letter asking for congressional support. Had he not, Aspin told his policy advisers privately, "I'd have led the move to impeach...
...utterly, smitten Mustafa. Jeffrey Stevens combines vocal stamina with a sustained level of high comedy that seemed contagious on Sunday: where Stevens was brilliant, the entire cast shone. And although he strains with some measures that were too high in his upper register, these mistakes are easily outshone by a truly professional performance...