That Saracens suffered their first defeat since March may come as a major surprise, but it was a fully warranted victory for Harlequins, who scored tries through their wings Tim Visser and Charlie Walker and made light work of their mounting injury problems.
Mr Stevens and his colleagues have explained how they think the NHS can be made to work in the face of mounting pressures.
Taken together, the administrations over which they presided collaborated in pursuing a common agenda, each intent on proving that the post-Cold-War consensus could work in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary.
"It's a challenging location to work with, because it's not your standard white box," he says of mounting the work in CAAM's lobby.
Amongst reasons often adduced for the dearth of modern productions are the scale of Meyerbeer's more ambitious works and the cost of mounting them, as well as the alleged lack of virtuoso singers capable of doing justice to Meyerbeer's demanding music.
In the sixth inning, nothing seemed to work, and a frustrating season of mounting losses continued for him and the Mets.
The German drubbing will mark this generation but they can still be worked into a team capable of mounting a decent challenge in 2018.
In interviews on Wednesday, they described the reading as creatively successful and said work was continuing toward the goal of mounting the musical in Germany in the fall of 2012 - and then, they hope, bringing "Rocky" to Broadway in the spring of 2013.
Despite the logistical demands of mounting so many works in succession, van Hove anticipated the exposure with pleasure.
The extraordinarily thick cover, the extremely difficult working conditions, and the tremendous expense of mounting expeditions into remote areas have long held geologic knowledge of Antarctica far behind that of other continents.
