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...team met four times to discuss the aftermath of a 4-3 disaster that had severely upset the Crimson's postseason scenario. Tomassoni mixed up his lines in an effort to rekindle the spark that was missing throughout a four-game road trip through the frozen North...
Lara Freidenfelds' Carmen was superb, considering the lack of dramatic support she got from the rest of her cast. Her voice was explosive throughout the first act, and she came through the famous "Habenera" with a spark of brilliance. Despite the weakness and discordance of the orchestra, she held the melody and retained the inflexions of the song. Unfortunately, her flair for the dramatic deteriorated slowly throughout the play. Teasing, seductive and convincing in the first act, her gestures and movement became less spirited and aimless by the final scene. Freidenfelds made an alluring and exciting Carmen...
...basic rules of chemistry are any guide, life should not exist. Scientists showed in the 1950s that shooting an electric spark through a soup of chemicals -- thus simulating lightning strikes on the primordial planet earth -- could produce simple organic compounds. But complex, self-reproducing chemicals like dna? They shouldn't have arisen in a trillion years. At an even deeper level, the second law of thermodynamics dictates that the universe should inexorably move toward disorganization. Cups of tea always cool off; they never spontaneously get hotter. Iron rusts, but rust never turns into iron...
...SPARK THIS TIME WAS A NEW BANK NOTE THAT testified by its denomination alone to decades of misrule in Zaire: 5 million zaires, valued at a purported % $2. The bill was floated by the country's long-ruling and long-embattled dictator Mobutu Sese Seko -- and was promptly declared worthless by his rival in a power standoff, transitional Premier Etienne Tshisekedi. Most merchants refused to accept the disputed tender. When Zairian soldiers were paid with it, they went on an armed rampage, looting shops and the homes of several thousand Europeans who live in the former Belgian colony...
Forced to enter the starting line up after an injury to starter Kelly Morrison, she has filled in with more than adequate play. Her quickness has often provided a spark to the offense, and surprisingly, she has avoided a common freshman disease: turnoveritis...