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...after he returns from yet another bathroom trip—Nick. Although she is seated next to Brendan, Nick quickly grabs control of the conversation. He and Elana are both psychology concentrators and dabble in music. “I’m intrigued,” she says somewhat hesitantly in response to Nick’s description of his role as piano player in a campus hip-hop band and his year off spent playing in piano bars. This begins a pattern that continues throughout the trio’s time at Daedalus: Nick will...
...Tuesday, in a somewhat serendipitous coupling, FitzRandolph and Carpenter came to the starting line together as the final twosome to race. Shimizu was in first place with a combined time of 69.26. FitzRandolph needed a 34.83 to win. He would skate a 34.81."I didn't get off line well," he explained later. "Kip was kicking my butt after 20 meters. It told me I needed to drop the hammer...
...Administration after another has tried to deal with the problems posed by Iran, Iraq and North Korea. All three have at times survived as much isolation as the rest of the world could muster and still succeeded in stockpiling their weapons. And while Western diplomacy has brought somewhat better behavior--increased contact with Iran, easing of tensions on the Korean peninsula--it has not diminished each country's fervent search for weapons of mass destruction. Pentagon brass still wince at the memory of Bill Clinton's 1998 speech warning that the world must come up with "a genuine solution...
...like Peter Sellers, a favorite of Margaret's. But eventually the constraints and duties of royalty began to irk Snowdon. After about seven years, the marriage began to disintegrate and blazing rows were common. In 1974 Margaret suffered a nervous breakdown. Four years later the couple divorced, an event somewhat shocking to a nation as yet unused to much light being shed on private rifts and crises inside the royal family...
...original cast album has been released, in quite a professional package. Somewhat less professional, though, is the album itself, which is something like one might get if he compressed an entire season of Dawson’s Creek into an hour of musical interludes. I can just see maudlin teens looking out over that creek into the setting sun, waxing philosophical on life and love in this crazy world of ours...