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Again, with only 1:25 remaining in the period and the zamboni waiting impatiently at the gates, Cornell struck its second blow--this one with an exclamation point...
...Lensky's solo ends with him lying on the ground in his misery. Tatiana and Olga arrive to try to persuade the two friends not to fight, but in vain; and in the duel, Onegin kills Lensky. Olga crumples to the ground as her sister grieves, and Onegin, finally struck by remorse, staggers emotionally across the stage as the curtain falls...
MADRID: The Basque separatist organization ETA struck for the third time in less than 24 hours Tuesday, killing a high-profile businessman and adding to fears that a new wave of separatist violence is in the offing. As mourners in Madrid and Granada commemorated the victims of two earlier slayings, a gunman shot Francisco Arratibel in the Basque city of Toloso during a carnival celebration. Arratibel had admitted earlier that he served as a go-between for citizens kidnapped by ETA and said that he was still on their hit list after surviving two previous assassination attempts. His murder came...
...gunfighter Ned Christie and his pal Zeke Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke's daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. "The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious...Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about...
...What struck Katharine Meyer most about her father's purchase of the Washington Post in 1933--for $825,000 at a bankruptcy auction--was that no one in her family bothered to tell her about it. Home for the summer after her junior year at Virginia's Madeira School, she overheard some conversation about the deal. "Oh, darling," her mother said, "didn't anyone tell you? Dad has bought the Post...