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When I was in the ninth grade, I took a music history class especially designed for those of us who liked to listen to music but had no business playing it. Our teacher was a smart, enthusiastic 20-something with an unholy knowledge of pop music trivia and lyrics from musicals. Needless to say, we loved her. The highlight of the class was the week we watched "West Side Story" on videotape and discussed the musical's roots in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," the socially conscious message of the show and the Boston background of composer Leonard Bernstein...
Reaching back to my memories of ninth grade music history, this is what I learned about "West Side Story": it's a love story in which two teenagers, Tony and Maria, fall for each other against the backdrop of inner-city New York gang fighting. The musical's script, by Arthur Laurents, updates Shakespeare's tale of Capulets and Montagues by casting a gang of white New Yorkers against a gang of Puerto Rican immigrants...
Princeton (4-3-2, 3-3-1), all alone in ninth place, still remains a question mark at this point. The Tigers tied Northeastern, but then they lost close games to Providence, UNH and St. Lawrence...
...weeks ago, at the NCAA Regionals, Baker placed ninth with the impressive time of 30:21 in his first 10,000-meter race of the season. All of Baker's previous races were in 8,000-meter competition...
Helms also starred at the NCAA Regionals, placing ninth overall in the race with a time of 17:34. And at Heps Helms impressed with a fifth place finish. At New Englands, she placed eleventh in a field of 250 runners...