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Whoever programmed the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's concert last Friday night clearly wasn't looking for crowd-pleasers; there wasn't a Beethoven symphony or Mozart concerto to be found in Sanders Theater. Instead, the orchestra gamely offered up a trancelike Wagner overture, a defiantly modernist Stravinsky ballet and--strangest of all--a bassoon concerto. While Wagner and Stravinsky are hardly obscure, it's not every day that you get to hear the bassoon--an instrument that ranks with the tuba and bass in ungainliness--dominate the stage...
...releasing a barrage of bricks, boulders and manure. "Monkeys!" they screamed. "Murderers!" "Go back to Serbia!" One of the worst incidents occurred in Sisak, where Croats began pulling people out of their vehicles and beating them; a woman later died from her injuries. In one of this war's strangest twists, more than 30,000 followers of Fikret Abdic, a Muslim who aligned himself with the Croatian and Bosnian Serbs, found themselves camped near the Croatian border, unwelcome anywhere despite an agreement between Abdic and the Bosnian government. "Do you think any country would take us?" Ibrahim Djedovic, once Abdic...
...rational, with a wry sense of humor. Yet his behavior makes it clear that there is something very wrong. After years of rock-solid competence, Elliot now has trouble keeping appointments and making decisions. He has squandered much of his life savings on a series of bad investments. And, strangest of all, the very fact that his behavior is self-destructive doesn't seem to bother him-and he keeps on making the same mistakes...
...strangest form of procrastination he's ever undertaken: Poster-gum penis sculpture...
...strangest development yet in the O. J. Simpson trial,13 of the remaining 18 jurorsshowed up in court today wearing black and saying they would not step into the jury box until Judge Lance Ito agreed to meet with them. The panelists were protesting Ito's dismissal of three of their guards in the wake of allegations that the guards were giving some jurors preferential treatment. Ito met privately with lawyers and sheriff's officials and then began to individually interview each juror. The interviews are expected to conclude Monday. The testimony of police evidence technician Andrea Mazzola...