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Into the Woods is a production of enormous scope, enormous challenges and, hopefully, enormous rewards. It’s a task that requires dedication, teamwork, coordination and countless hours of, if not blood, then certainly toil, sweat and tears. The performance is a large-scale endeavor that requires that all the details be in place, so that the ultimate “big picture” is as powerful as it can be. Furthermore, not only is Sondheim’s music notoriously difficult for performers to master, but the audience may come in with pre-formed expectations from...
...press briefing late last week, FBI officials insisted the only thing Carnivore has bloodied is the bureau's reputation. They blame the politically incorrect name on a couple of FBI computer engineers who toil deep in the bowels of a classified facility on the tightly secured FBI Academy campus in Quantico, Va., and who were trying to convey that they had refined an older, less discriminating e-mail search program called Omnivore. The moniker was never run past Washington-based officials devoted to burnishing the bureau's image - and ducking trouble. "Yeah," one FBI official said glumly. "We're looking...
...dressed in a life jacket, cap and khaki shorts and sporting a pair of wraparound dark shades, Pregracke could be a latter-day Huck Finn. His grin is impish, his body compact and coiled. Two lean, tanned young women in similar uniforms--Jennifer Anderson, 26, and Lisa Hoffman, 22--toil alongside him, heaving corroded truck tires onto a towering stack. "It's hard work, but it's fun work," Hoffman says, describing a regimen of 12-hour days hauling discarded Porta Potties from stagnant, snake-filled sloughs.The crew will scour 900 miles of river this year, stopping off in towns...
...Fittingly, his storybook college career is ending in a storybook way. Today, as Kacyvenski continues to toil in Seattle in preparation for training camp, his father Dave will be accepting his diploma in a Leverett House ceremony...
...appropriate in a community where we spend a long time searching for each other, serve on committees together and toil hard together," Eck said. "I think that we should observe these rites together as community more formally than in the Gazette...