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Lastly, Dartmouth came up short in both of its weekend match-ups. On Friday, the Big Green (2-5-2, 1-2-2) fell to Providence, 2-0, as the Dartmouth offense failed to muster a goal against Friars' goalie Boyd Ballard (30 saves...
...short term, however, Bulldogs' coach Tim Taylor '63 will need continued goal production from junior forward Ben Stafford, whose 13 points in ECAC play have placed him second among the league's top scorers. The Bulldogs will also rely heavily on its spectacular goaltending platoon of senior Trevor Hanger and sophomore Dan Lombard...
...Chechnya were to gain independence in this war, the devastation would be even worse and Russian aid even less forthcoming. Life for most people in Chechens would be nasty, brutish and short. The unfortunate fact is that the rule of a distant, incompetent and corrupt government is a better way to live than the war of all against all which would ensue in an independent, but devastated Chechnya...
...tome that is part travelogue, part scientific inquiry, part investigative journalism. Hooper tries to establish what a panel of scientists convened in 1992 could not--that HIV spread from chimps to man in contaminated experimental polio vaccines that were tested in Africa. He comes close--very close--but falls short of the smoking-gun evidence that would put the issue to rest...
America's poet of the piano plays 15 of Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte (literally, Songs Without Words), plus eight Bach-Busoni and Schubert-Liszt transcriptions. The hand injury that threatened to sideline Perahia only a few short years ago is now nothing but a fast-fading memory: the poise and lyricism of the exquisite playing heard on this meltingly beautiful CD are worthy of comparison with any of the century's greatest pianists. His tone is warm and inviting, his interpretations quietly romantic. Vladimir Horowitz--who once gave Perahia a few pointers--would have reveled in the results...