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About 250 Eliot House residents, more than half the house population, have volunteered their time to the show. Paul Wylie '91, a 1992 Olympic silver medalist, and Nancy Kerrigan, a 1992 Olympic bronze medalist, are two of the more than 25 world-class skaters featured in the showcase...
...green symbol of recyclability have piled up in warehouses, farm fields and abandoned aircraft hangers from Hamburg to Augsburg. Much more has been shipped abroad, some of it as far away as Indonesia, helping Germany become the globe's biggest exporter of trash. "This system has made us world-class litterbugs," says Norbert Barth, a spokesman for the environmentalist Greens party. "It is a waste-export system, not a waste-recycling system...
Chavis discussed his aspiration to assemble "a world-class freedomfighting organization of committed brothers and sisters...
Virgil Thomson was a first-rate music critic, able author, brilliant dinner- party conversationalist and world-class gadfly, but he wasn't much of a composer -- which is, alas, primarily how he thought of himself. Turning his back on nearly every major compositional technique of the 20th century, with the notable exception of pastiche, Thomson wrote archly naive, perversely | wholesome music -- tonal, uncomplicated and almost completely unmemorable...
Harris says she sang in the school's world-class choir, played on the volleyball team for two years, served on the student council, was president of her church youth group, was a member of the Spanish Club, won the award for best all-round student in her high school, earned a place in the National Honor Society and won the National Achievement award for Outstanding Negroes...