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Harvard's production, under the direction of Gina Fried-Miller, wisely sustains the light and comic aspects of the story and places it in a traditional context--1840's Great Britain. Conductor Sarah Hicks sets the mood with Gilbert and Sullivan's time-honored "God Save The Queen...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Pirates Enchanting, Though Offensive | 12/13/1991 | See Source »

What came to dominate Japan's overall strategy was the impact of Hitler's stunning victories over the Western Allies in the spring of 1940. The Dutch army was crushed within a week, and Queen Wilhelmina fled to London, leaving the immense wealth of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in the charge of a few colonial bureaucrats. France collapsed in a month, and Marshal Petain's feeble puppet regime, based in the French resort of Vichy, had other worries than French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). Britain, threatened by a Nazi invasion, could devote little more than some Churchillian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...have to put up with acid rain from Buffalo, Harvard professors who can't handle it when we spell "colour" as it should be in the Queen's English, Bob and Doug jokes, my Gov professor who suggested invading Canada, mockery if our sentences should trail off with a tell-tale...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Oh, Canada, My Home and Wacky Land | 11/21/1991 | See Source »

THIS IS HOW it works. After a hard day on the job, the worker ants fork over the acid they collected in the peanut butter to the queen ant. The resulting stuffed up intestinal tract leads her to a cruel fate. Without a queen, the colony quickly succumbs to disorganization and death...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

...ants will feed on the peanut butter and take that to the queen and feed the queen," Liem explained. "Hopefully, the queen will die because of that...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Dunster Prepares To Battle Ant Menace | 11/14/1991 | See Source »

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