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Just as actors often have burning desires to direct, music producers frequently long to be behind the microphone, and Steve Tyrell is no exception. Having contributed to the Father of the Bride soundtracks, Tyrell has decided to try his hand at a full length project, A New Standard, composed entirely of jazz standards (doubling, naturally, on producing duties). The execution is something fairly uneven. While works penned by Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern can never be truly faulted, Tyrell doesn't possess the vocal versatility to make them twinkle with true allure. "Give Me the Simple Life" caters...
...everyman, Paul Edgecomb. The model of fairness and discipline, Edgecomb is the ideal man to be charged with one of society's toughest responsibilities. As the caretaker of doomed criminals, his job requires him to grapple with death and justice on a daily basis, precepts that are often philosophically opposed. He suffers everything that a normal man suffers - pangs of conscience, doubts in the human capacity for good, and the occasional urinary tract infection. (When he scrambles into the bathroom, doubled over and grimacing at the excruciating effort of relieving himself - well, the audience feels his pain.) Duncan...
Student groups, whose stamps of approval often carry weight among both members and other students, have spent hours since Dec. 1, the campaign's official start, interviewing candidates, grilling them on issues from anti-homophobia measures to College funding for campus activities...
While candidates often run together for council elections, the offices of president and vice president are officially elected separately...
...Wednesday arrested a junior Russian embassy official, after reportedly catching him listening to a bugging device planted in a State Department conference room often used by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The arrest of Second Secretary Stanislav Borisovich Gusev, who has been ordered to leave the U.S. within 10 days, follows last week's arrest in Moscow of Cheri Leberknight, a second secretary at the U.S. embassy there. And her detention followed the earlier arrest of a U.S. Navy officer on charges of selling secrets to Moscow...