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Romney, who succeeds Jane M. Swift, continues more than a decade of Republican control over the Corner Office in a State House otherwise overflowing with Democrats. In fact it was two Democrats, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini and House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, who administered the oath of office to Romney and Lt. Governor Kerry Murphy Healy ’82 before a backdrop of other state-wide elected officials, also all Democrats...
...never done onstage before," she says. "I'm slapped in the face, I scream, I vomit, I lose my children, I'm degraded. It's so difficult, so emotionally demanding." The role requires speedy costume changes - some clothes are fitted with magnets that fasten unaided - and equally swift transitions in mood and tone, as the scenes shift between postwar Brooklyn and wartime Poland. Fortunately for audiences and for Kirchschlager, she rose magnificently to the challenge. Though the opera itself, a four-hour-long work by British composer Nicholas Maw, has received mixed reviews, Kirchschlager's performance has won unanimous raves...
...quickie called A Terracotta Warrior, starring two kids from the mainland, Gong Li and Zhang Yimou. The very first set-to in Hero is a terrific one between Li and Yen. (Each man first imagines the fight, like a chess player visualizing his opponent's possible moves.) How swift their swords! How eloquent their body language...
...Despite such grim revelations, it seemed that every new bomber paraded before the press rebutted those who had despaired of Indonesia ever taking action in the fight against terror. The police made a series of amazingly swift arrests and promised more soon. But for all the sound and fury surrounding the investigations, disturbing questions remain unanswered?questions that have grave implications for the likelihood of future terrorist attacks in Indonesia and the region. Why can't Indonesian and Australian forensics analysts even agree on the composition of the bomb? Who actually built the bomb?none of those captured even pretended...
...Harvard’s recent success against Cornell has come when the Crimson has taken advantage of its athleticism and speed on its forward line. Lake Placid’s olympic-size sheet is larger than the standard college rink, and Harvard exploited this difference effectively last year with swift, well-timed puck movement...