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...Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades)--performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Mirella Freni and Vladimir Atlantov at Boston Symphony Hall. Call 266-1200. Wednesday...
...Being Harvard, everybody is gunning for us," Clemens said. "Columbia plays us very, very tough, as tough as they play anybody. We're like the Notre Dame of the Ivy League, as far as people wanting to beat...
...Canadian provinces since the 1985 conviction of Louisiana's Father Gilbert Gauthe, who had molested 35 youths. So widespread are the cases that by one informed estimate, Catholic institutions have paid $300 million in settlements -- with no end in sight. "We could be sued out of existence," says Notre Dame philosophy professor Ralph McInerny...
...mystery, whose audiences manifest, by their choice of genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery can become a series, a literary annuity...
...many people simply breathing, even raise the humidity to damaging levels. "I've actually seen rivulets of condensation running down the stained- glass windows," says Christian Dupavillon, director of patrimony for the French Ministry of Culture. Even the tourist industry is alarmed. "Will we have to create a Notre Dame II similar to the replica they were forced to build at Lascaux?" asked the trade daily Le Quotidien de Tourisme in an editorial...