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Housing was the central theme of last night’s meeting, which lasted almost four hours...
...Maximum number of students in each of the 67 small, theme-based high schools that the grants will fund...
DIED. SHEB WOOLEY, 82, actor and comedic singer-songwriter whose 1958 novelty hit, The Purple People Eater, about an alienlike creature, tapped into America's fascination with outer space and sold 3 million copies; of leukemia; in Nashville, Tenn. His string of wry country songs included the theme for TV's Hee Haw, but he had an equally successful career as a TV and movie actor--notably playing outlaw Ben Miller, who menaces Gary Cooper in High Noon, and a trail scout in the 1959-66 TV series Rawhide, which helped launch Clint Eastwood's career...
...self-doubting Latino, the stand-out performance of the film. Joanna Chilcoat plays Ellen, a love-lorn teenage girl devoted to her gay male campmates, with grace and humor, and falls for the seemingly sole straight camper, Vlad (Daniel Letterle), the less-than-captivating Romeo of her romance. The theme is somewhat tired—we all know what it’s like to not fit in at high school—but the music and choreography are great. Besides, what could beat a cameo performance by Stephen Sondheim, replete with stretch limo? Only the uproarious reaction of these...
...response to a Clue Crew challenge to improvise lyrics to the Jeopardy! theme song, Tatyana C, Bartch ’06 sang, “My name is Tasha, and I didn’t pass the test. I feel really dumb ’cause I go to Harvard,” leaving the audience in laughter...