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Operatically, there are Mozart's youthful Il sogno di Scipione and Vaughan Williams' radiant vision of the celestial city, The Pilgrim's Progress. And some company could put itself on the map with a production of Soviet Composer Yuri Shaporin's spectacular Dekabristi (The Decembrists), a thrilling musical melange of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Shostakovich that is also a vivid piece of theater...
After 13 months of anticipation and delays, Wall Street's most spectacular speculator -- and insider trader -- finally heard his fate. Hands clutched behind his back, Ivan Boesky, 50, listened pensively while U.S. District Court Judge Morris Lasker told a packed courtroom in Manhattan, "Criminal behavior such as Boesky's cannot go unchecked. Its seriousness was too substantial merely to forgive and to forget." With that the judge sentenced the onetime superstar investor to three years in prison for his role in the largest insider-trading scandal in history...
...What will we in the West do?" observes Pietri of International Aid Against Hunger. "We will end by choosing the most costly, screwed-up solution that benefits the least amount of people, and we'll do it in a spectacular way." But just how much real choice is there? "The ethic is an absolute one," says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, a New York-based institute that studies moral issues. "The price of not providing aid is a basic denial of humanity, far greater than the possible political damage. It may indeed help a corrupt and totalitarian regime...
...Communists put 18 of the captives on trial in Ho Chi Minh City. Seventeen were given three years to life in prison. Another was sentenced to five years of house arrest and "re-education." Hanoi has accused the U.S. of supporting the subversives, a charge Washington denies. Despite its spectacular failure, the front continues to raise funds from overseas Vietnamese. Said a spokesman in Thailand: "It took Ho Chi Minh 60 years to win. We've got plenty of time...
...racquetwomen had a near perfect slate, with only one loss, and spectacular performances from the middle part of the line...