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...recent a spate of opera films are making it possible to munch away on popcorn, Junior Mints or anything else while basking in some of the world's sophisticated music. The film adaptations of Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Puccini's "La Traviata" and now Bizet's "Carmen" return opera to its intended audience, the general public, more successfully than any low-budget opera company ever could...
...years ago, Whitley recalls, she had a spate of potentially serious injuries, including one when she dove into a goalpost and required four stitches, and several minor concussions...
...shortage of personnel and the growth of new carriers have raised concerns about airline safety. "The margin of safety is growing thin," warns Henry Duffy, president of the Air Line Pilots Association. Fears were heightened this past summer by a spate of mid-air near collisions. In August, for example, a private aircraft came within 100 feet of a Delta jet carrying 146 people shortly after the larger plane left Washington. Nonetheless, most experts contend that U.S. skies remain remarkably safe. On regularly scheduled passenger flights last year, there were three fatal accidents out of 4.9 million departures, with...
Despite the profusions of the party's right wing and the recent success of candidate Shamie, there is little evidence that the Republicans will begin offering a spate of Jack Kemp clones for statewide office to the exclusion of party moderates...
...more specific, the House renovations have meant scaffolding in idyllic courtyards and hammering early in the morning. In Lowell House two years ago they triggered a spate of false fire alarms. In Adams House this year they left rooms without phone service several weeks into the first semester. Ari W. Epstein '84 says in Dunster "people have had glass broken into their rooms." Leonard I. Ganz '84 of Lowell House recalls of his sophomore year: "you would hear a bang on you door at 8 o'clock in the morning, five construction workers would come in, smoking cigars, sit down...