Aida’s father, Amonasro, the king of Ethiopia, put Aida up to wheedling that information out of the Egyptian general, and has ...
One attraction of the new Aida was Saioa Hernández, a Spanish soprano rarely seen in American productions, in the title role.
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Thomas Philbrick on a performance of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome,” by Damien Stone.
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On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.
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