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Last Thursday night, exactly one year since his triumphant ascent to the Speaker's chair, Gingrich stood before his troops at a private session in the Cannon caucus room. He had told them then that there would come a dark hour, when the fight would grow hard, the polls pitiless, the prospects bleak. And he had promised he would be right at their side, that once they had won the war, all the pain would be forgotten...
Brown (4-2-1, 2-0-1) continued its triumphant week with a 7-1 thrashing of Boston College (1-5, 0-3), the last-place team in the ECAC. Brown forward Katie King earned Player of the Week honors in both the ECAC and the Ivy League, scoring the game-winner with 20 seconds left to defeat Providence. Against B.C., King had two goals and two assists to help Brown go undefeated for the week...
...WHEN A TRIUMPHANT LECH WALESA became President of Poland in 1990, European communism appeared to be finished for good. As police states dissolved, members by the millions tore up their party cards, and democratically elected parliaments in most of the newly free countries voted to bar communist parties from the political process...
...Frank Churchill's music for the 1937 Disney animated film. But lest one think that Wild is all flash and no substance, his recent recording of Beethoven's thorny "Hammerklavier" Sonata, on the Chesky label, is grandly conceived and brilliantly executed, from the soulful (and lengthy) Adagio to the triumphant final Fugue, a supreme test of both fingers and musical intelligence. Wild's reputation may rest on his pyrotechnics, but his musical sensitivity is growing even richer with...
...Triumphant is the best word to describe the atmosphere at Agassiz Theater last Friday night. The new HRDC production of "West Side Story" (directed by Scott Brown, produced by Melissa Swift) takes on the full challenge of the musical--the singing, dancing, scatting, even the blindingly bright costumes--and pulls it off with style. The make-or-break moment comes right at the beginning, when the Jets, snapping in rhythm and looking cool, break into that first pirouette. Not only is it surprisingly graceful, but the six buddy-boys do it with such infectious high spirits that the audience...