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Three stories above the basement, the sounds of student artists at work ring out. Someone strikes a piano chord and a roomful of Radcliffe Pitches answer its call. In a nearby office, student assistants copy press releases for upcoming events, and on the building’s sixth and uppermost floor, professional director David R. Gammons ’92 offers criticism to the undergraduate cast of “Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin?...
...least four years, the forgotten politicians known as"democrats of the first wave" showed up on TV, and for the first time in years, Russians heard a lively political discussion broadcast live as speaker after speaker invoked memories of "free speech and the free media as Yeltsin' uppermost historical achievement," drawing waves of applause from the studio audience. This breath of fresh air in the long stagnant Russian TV atmosphere was the best tribute to Yeltsin - and the most bitter reminder of his worst failure...
...went to a private school, am I right?" asks voice trainer Dewi Hughes, immediately placing me in the marzipan (almost uppermost) layer of the British social fruit cake. I did, it's true. But, I plead, I'd much rather sound like the other 98% of the country. As a preliminary exercise, he has me read Christina Rossetti's poem Remember. His verdict? "Two vowels betray your background." My clenched and elongated [an error occurred while processing this directive]"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff. So why don't I want...
...which has included moving out some loyalists from Texas and is likely to continue, reflects the President's insistence that Bolten rethink an enterprise that had a series of horrible quarters. The real deadline is not 1,000 days from now, when Bush leaves office. The marker that is uppermost in the minds of Bush's inner circle is Nov. 7, when Republicans could lose control of the House and even the Senate. "If we don't keep Congress, there won't be a legacy," said a presidential adviser. "The legacy will be investigations and fights over Executive privilege" with...
...sisters marry into uppermost Renaissance Italian society. Plain, naive Beatrice gets the ruler of Milan, while precocious (and luscious) Isabella winds up with a lesser man. In this gold brocade world, where every gesture echoes in quadruple?as politics, family, sex and art?only the virtuosos survive, and leading the dance is the greatest virtuoso of them all, Da Vinci...