Admittedly, Oliver! is one of those musicals that instantly takes me back to my formative years, as I fondly remember watching the 1968 film version at school and at home. It would have taken a total disaster for the Spotlight Theatre to leave me disappointed. Luckily for everyone, though, director Sara Tubbs’s production is a sensory delight: it looked and sounded terrific.
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As a woman of color with naturally curly hair, Gelila Reta found it difficult to find products that suited her hair needs. Big curly hair doesn’t fit well underneath a baseball cap, Reta said, and wearing a cotton scarf can dry out your skin, no matter your race.
Reta, a student in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering, had long dealt with the inability to find a scarf on the market that was made of silk on one side and cotton on the other, helping her protect her hair and skin while achieving the look she was after. Reta would wear two scarves: a silk scarf, closest to
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A watchdog group said Monday it won a major victory in its effort to obtain documents in the U.S. Justice Department s John Ensign sex scandal investigation. 2008 file photo. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 (UPI) A watchdog group said Monday it won a major victory in its effort to obtain documents in the U.S. Justice Department s John Ensign sex scandal investigation.
U.S. District Judge John Bates ruled Friday the Justice Department must provide an index of documents in the case involving the former Republican senator from Nevada and explain why each is being withheld from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington advocates group that was rebuffed by several government agencies.
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Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., is to be appointed to serve out the U.S. Senate term of John Ensign, who resigned in an ethics scandal. (UPI Photo/Jack Hohman) | License Photo
LAS VEGAS, April 27 (UPI) Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Wednesday he would appoint Republican Rep. Dean Heller to serve the rest of John Ensign s term in the U.S. Senate.
The Republican Ensign resigned last month to stave off an ethics investigation involving an affair with Cynthia Hampton, a former aide s wife, in 2009. The aide, Doug Hampton, said Ensign helped him find work as a lobbyist and Ensign s parents gave the Hamptons nearly $100,000.