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...overture began with taut strings that emanated an aura of stress. Flutes followed, shrieking. This tense introduction represented the “wasps” referenced in the title—actually overzealous Athenian jurors in Aristophanes’s text.Although the orchestra, sounding out of tune, had gotten off to a rocky start, it finished the piece very professionally. The overture moved into a calm interlude—the flutes were no longer shrieking, but humming—and finally resolved into a rousing coda. Following the Overture, suspense mounted as the audience waited for violinist Goto to emerge...
...College has control over a large part of our experience.” Ayogu said he was surprised by Smith’s receptiveness. “I thought, you know, after he had a committee that was all white, he wouldn’t have been so in tune to racial issues,” Ayogu said. Smith told the students that some of the faculty members under consideration for the deanship are members of minority groups and that he did not want to include potential top contenders on the advisory committee, according to Ayogu and Vice President...
...scoring on counter-attacks.”Co-captain Michael Byrd scored three goals and added four steals.GWU 9, HARVARD 6The weekend festivities started well enough, as the Crimson jumped out to an early lead at the halfway mark, holding a precarious 4-3 margin. Led by Ludwick and Tune, who each contributed two goals, Harvard answered George Washington’s aggressive offense with staunch defense and quick counter-play.But the defense broke down in the second half, as the Colonials tore open the game in the third period by scoring five unanswered goals to recapture the lead...
...ejected from the game for dissent towards the end of the second period. The ejection served as a precursor of things to come, as the Crimson relentlessly blitzed the Camel net in the third quarter, scoring six unanswered goals to push the lead to an insurmountable margin. Junior David Tune led all scorers with three goals, and Bret Voith, Michael Byrd, Jeff Lee, and Dan Furman all contributed two goals each to Harvard tally. Freshman Alex Thompson drew four ejections and recorded two assists, following the lead of senior co-captain Chris Ludwick, who also tallied two assists. Sophomore Sean...
...Rugby has long enjoyed a sizable audience in Britain, Ireland, France, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand and is developing a growing fan base in Argentina and Italy; the numbers of fans tuning in from such World Cup competitors as Tonga, Fiji, Georgia and the U.S. is tiny by comparison, however, so the 4 billion total means a lot more people from a growing number of nations around the world had to be interested enough to tune...