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Scott Waddle's future will not be determined in a courtroom. According to Pentagon reports, Pacific Fleet commander-in-chief Admiral Thomas Fargo has recommended that Waddle, the beleaguered captain of the ill-fated USS Greeneville, not face a court-martial...
However, ripples are also being felt at institutions that, while selective, can ill afford to bid more for top students. Pennsylvania's Dickinson College has an endowment less than one-fiftieth the size of Princeton's and must carefully husband aid. "Princeton," says Dickinson vice president for enrollment and student life Robert Massa, "has reduced the maneuverability of making a financial-aid package competitive...
...front door," Stroman recalls, "and he launched into That Face, one of his songs from the show. He danced down the hallway and wound up on top of the sofa. Then he said, 'I'm Mel Brooks.'" The performance won them over, but not long afterward Ockrent became ill with leukemia (he died in December 1999). After a few months' hiatus, Stroman resumed working on her own with Brooks. "I needed someone to make me smile," she says. "Who better than Mel Brooks...
Though some couples share housing as a transition to divorce, others come to it later, after some of the inevitable ill feeling has dissipated. Relations between Mary Kaye and Pat Perotti were frosty when they divorced in 1992. The three kids, then ages 8 through 15, lived with their mother in Marietta, Ga., during the week. Their dad would pick them up Friday night, drive them to his home 175 miles away in Greenville, S.C., then return them to their mother Sunday night. The two round trips, 700 miles a weekend, were exhausting--and wore out four cars in seven...
...Bohème is a four-act opera in which six poverty-stricken artists struggle to find success amidst their bohemian lifestyles. Rodolfo, a poet (Robert Grady) falls in love with a silk flower-maker, Mimi (Susan Brownfield) who is fatally ill. As the opera progresses, Rodolfo and Mimi realize that their relationship cannot last—Rodolfo can not stand by and watch helplessly as Mimi’s consumption steals her away from him. In the end, although Rodolfo and his friends give their most prized possessions, this is not enough to save Mimi’s life...