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Based on an especially grisly Brothers Grimm fairy tale, the Juniper Tree libretto, by Children's Author Arthur Yorinks, recounts the fable of an evil stepmother (Mezzo Ruby Hinds) who murders her stepson (Soprano Lynn Torgove) and serves the dismembered boy to his father (Baritone Sanford Sylvan) in a stew. His spirit reincarnated as a bird, the boy takes his revenge by dropping a millstone on the stepmother and is joyfully restored to his father and half sister. Watching over all is the juniper tree, in which dwells the benign spirit of the boy's real mother...
...April, after his newly retained defense attorney, the high-powered Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, filed a brief claiming wrongful conviction, the Rhode Island Supreme Court threw out the verdict on technical grounds. The justices ruled that the contents of Von Bulow's "little black bag," found by his stepson Alexander von Auersperg and containing a used syringe with traces of insulin, were illegally analyzed by state authorities...
...language. Ask anyone gazing into Larry "J.R." Hagman's eyes some Friday night: could anyone beat the tale of Claudius (Christopher Keyser) who murders his brother King Hamlet, marries his widow Gertrude (Thea Henry), revels in his incest-purchased court luxury, and dies at the hands of his ungrateful stepson, Prince Hamlet (Andrew Sullivan). Of the plot, I'll say no more--the midwestern English profs who pen Monarch Notes probably have children to support...
Composed of admissions and financial aid officers from colleges around the country, COFHE decided that "it would be nice for all colleges to more their notification date as close to April I as possible to allow students a longer time to explore their options," said Willis J. Stepson, Jr., dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania...
...under the care of a Soviet doctor who specializes in "artificial nutrition." The treatment is said to involve a technique that is used with patients who cannot swallow because they have throat cancer. Regardless of his health, Sakharov is an increasingly troublesome issue for the Soviets. Summed up his stepson Alexei Semyonov in Washington last week: "Sakharov is dangerous because his inward development as a person has led him to a state of freedom and courage...