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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Caren Lyn Manuel, a first-year on leave from Emerson College, plays the adult Eponine flawlessly. Her journey from the Thernadiers inn to the slums of St-Michel is tragic. When she falls for the unsympathetic Marius; the audience feels her despair. Her devastating rendition of "On My Own" rivals Piro as the evening's most spectacular solo...

Author: By Matthew L. Kramer, | Title: Les Miserables Marches On | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...TURNS OUT, WE DO NOT reserve all our tears and rage these days for battles over the flat tax and tort reform. Sometimes matters of more tragic consequence command our passions. That was the case last week when Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, expressed shame over America's conduct of the Vietnam War. Suddenly, hot arguments over the justice of that war resumed as if interrupted only by a pause for breath, rather than the passage of decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIETNAM: A LOST WAR | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...Pham, then 18, and Diem Do, who was 12, noticed their classes getting smaller day by day. Says Do: "One day a couple of guys would be gone, and then a couple more, and then the teacher wouldn't show up. Everybody was scared. They sensed that something tragic was about to happen," and some were already fleeing the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAIGON: THE FINAL 10 DAYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...some kind of gods who never make mistakes. You emphasized that "negligence in American hospitals may result in 80,000 deaths each year,'' and more or less hid the fact that this comes to only a tiny percentage of patients physicians help every year. I am not excusing the tragic errors made by a few physicians; however, I am applauding the phenomenal success rate doctors have managed as technology and new treatments keep advancing and become more complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Fenway park is the most revered park in baseball because of its traditional-style, weird dimensions, and inviting Green Monster. Throw in the gloriously tragic history of the Red Sox and the sports craziness of Boston, and it becomes clear my any red-blooded American kid dreams of clearing the 33-foot high wall in left...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Dreams | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

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