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Like Bernstein, Robbins--who died last week at 79, after a stroke--was a crossover artist long before the term was coined. In the '50s and '60s, he spent much of his time working on Broadway, staging such landmark productions as Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof; he made Mary Martin fly in Peter Pan and taught the Jets and the Sharks how to rumble in West Side Story, the urban updating of Romeo and Juliet that was his (and Bernstein's) most enduring contribution to the American musical. But classical dance was his true love...
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...whom were hospitalized--and an additional 159 were suspected of being infected, making it the largest waterborne outbreak of O157 in the U.S. So far none of the Alpine victims have died; given the bacteria's low but consistent mortality rate, however, that is as much a stroke of luck as anything else...
...victim in the Tawana Brawley case? Tawana? It was such a parenthetical sadness--though also a stroke of cunning--that she was led to such a degrading fantasy, herself as garbage. But the unambiguous casualty was a white assistant prosecutor from Dutchess County named Steven Pagones. Tawana's was not a harmless lie. Once the story went public, it attracted three professional race men named C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox and Al Sharpton, lawyers who arrived to work as Tawana's handlers and to demagogue the case in the media. The three identified Pagones as one of the white rapists...
Each year, Harvard hopes that with the stroke of a pen, graduating seniors will keep their alma mater close to their hearts and their checkbooks by making donations to the senior gift...