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...somewhat typical for the freshmen to experience some injuries early on," Taylor said. "Coach [Frank Haggerty] kept them out as a precaution...
...legislature needs to meet in order to appropriate funds to pay Byrd--but it still hasn't done so. State senator Rodney Ellis plans to introduce a bill in January to make it easier to collect compensation, but observers say it is not likely to pass. The situation is somewhat better in California, where in September Governor Gray Davis signed a law to pay innocent men and women $100 for every day spent in prison. But it won't affect Ricky Daye--the law doesn't apply to older cases...
Seeing the person who told you time and time again, always irreverently and arrogantly, that your life was entirely devoid of beauty and replete with artifice publicly humiliated in a court of law should be at least somewhat satisfying. Yet in Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, where the audience is witness to the "Trial of the Century" in which Wilde is accused of being a "posing sodomite," public humiliation reminds us just how closed-minded a society can be, even with regard to one of its famous personalities...
...second half of the concert came as somewhat of a disappointment. The Three Interludes (1996) of Richard Wilson '63, served as a substitute for a Milton Babbitt piece that was to have been premiered at the concert (apparently Babbitt could not finish the piece in time). The interludes comprise two moderate-tempo movements and a scherzo-like middle movement. The piano accompaniment is harmonically inventive, but the violin line sometimes suffers from a lack of development. Still, Schulte and Winn played the piece with accuracy and enthusiasm...
Harvey C. Mansfield Jr.'53, Kenan Jr. professor of government, says "My style is somewhat formal...[though] now and then I'll formally tell a joke...