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Rounding out the awards, senior defensive back Joe Messina was honored with the Lamar award for dedication while senior center Rob Jungerhans took away the LaCroix Trophy for enthusiasm, sportsmanship and loyalty and captain Sean Riley was recognized as the outstanding interior lineman with the Wolf Award...
Director Kaile Shilling locates the play on a riverboat in Dixie. Despite this revision, she chooses to preserve the original text, with all its context, save one or two lines adapted to read "The South" instead of "Messina." This leads to baffling conundrums: where do you find the balconies and gardens on a riverboat? Why are war-weary veterans holidaying on the water with the governor of Messina? What kind of steamer comes complete with a crypt? This hare-brained Steamboat Willie hybrid smacks of direction for direction's sake...
...Greek word meaning "to initiate to mysteries" -- a town in Italy's lower boot that had been partly destroyed by the Romans in 214 B.C. because its inhabitants were too friendly to Hannibal's Carthaginians. His family, however, was rooted in Maida, 65 miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than its share of history, good and bad. Maida was plundered frequently in pre-Christian times. The rebel slave Spartacus led his ragtag army through the area during his ill-fated...
...kind. His lyrics bear down sharp but easy, perhaps because he came to country by a slightly different route. "When I was eight, I started collecting records," he remembers. "But it was the rock stuff that my older brothers had exposed me to. Then I got into Loggins and Messina, Croce, Buffett, Jackson Browne and James Taylor." He's had a total of one professional guitar lesson, and all it did was make him impatient. He just kept his eyes open around his hometown, where "there was always somebody with a guitar. I learned that with three chords I could...
...number of former city officials who now work for developers alarms other city residents. David Vickery, a former head of the Community Development department, is now a partner in Reynolds, Vickery, Messina & Griefen, a commercial development firm. Kathy Spiegelman, his successor, is Harvard's director of planning...