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...back. On Bourbon Street in the French Quarter last week, slightly sauced survivors sat on the bar stools of Johnny White's, a tavern they say has never closed in its 14-year history. "Why are they making us leave? Did they evacuate Iraq?" asks Greg Rogers, known as Squirrel. "Why didn't they just give us a job? Say, 'Here, dude, if you're going to stay, get busy...
While many productions squirrel their conductor away in the orchestra pit, Don Giovanni refreshingly features its conductor at center stage. Indeed, even audiences can appreciate the clear musical direction and easy-to-follow beats of the LHO’s magician at work, Gund Unviersity Organist and Choirmaster Edward E. Jones. As the music director, he is the essential glue that holds the instrumentalists and vocalists together...
...applicant sent in a life-sized papier mâché model of himself,” Fitzsimmons says. Another student sought to display his skills in taxidermy to the admissions committee. “By the time the squirrel reached us,” the Dean says, “it was not in the best condition...
...scientists have uncovered all sorts of detailed characteristics common to birds and dinosaurs: wishbones, swiveling wristbones and, most recently, proof that some dinosaurs sported feathers. There's behavioral evidence too. Some dinosaurs made nests and sat on them, and one four-winged, feathered dino evidently glided like a flying squirrel...
...type of dinosaur. (Several years ago in Mongolia, Norell and colleagues unearthed a fossil oviraptor sitting on its egg-filled nest.) And then there's also the open question of how flight evolved. Mei long, says Chiappe, was clearly sleeping on the ground. But if flight began as flying-squirrel-like glides out of trees, he wonders, "wouldn't it have been safer resting in a tree...