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...Crimson (4-3) went into the tournament not quite knowing what to expect. It had an impressive 3-1 record, but little experience against top-flight foes. The Navy tournament, featuring 11th-ranked Navy and 15th-ranked Bucknell, promised, to change that. It did, and the Crimson is happy with the results...
...album was shaped by top-flight producers, including Babyface (who's worked with Toni Braxton and Madonna) and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (the masterminds of Janet Jackson's rise to megastardom). Every song on II is about love and is performed at mid-tempo; the whole enterprise could easily have become just another bland-as-the-Weather-Channel collection of precision- crafted pop songs. It didn't. Each of the Boyz has a robust, nimble voice -- "There's not a weak link in the bunch," says Jam -- and the group turns almost every song on II into a vocal...
...galleries outside the palace that are always open to the public and have no queues. Buckingham Palace does contain some great pictures though. Most are from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy, amid the grand, vaporous profusion of light on silk and marble. No later court painter -- at least not in England -- would...
Celebrity felons may be charged more than $10,000 a case or up to $200 an hour for the services of top-flight sentencing consultants; garden-variety or indigent miscreants are asked to pay far less. Business has been so good at all levels that the consultants have formed their own professional body, the National Association of Sentencing Advocates, with 100 member firms so far. Practitioners, often criminologists or social workers, have found themselves increasingly asked to decipher the compendium of federal sentencing guidelines, which has grown from paperback size to the dimensions of a metropolitan phone book over...
...well-rounded, so brilliant, so power-hungry, that we'd like to suggest to Bill that he look no further than Harvard University in selecting his cabinet members. That's right--forget the rest of the contenders. Those Yalies and other such rabble have no place in a top-flight Democratic administration...