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To a great extent, the Wednesday concert belonged to Ms. de Niese, who not only was the first and last to sing — she opened with an agile account of the Alleluia from Mozart’s “Exsultate, Jubilate” and closed the program with Lehar’s frothy “Meine Lippen Sie Küssen So Heiss” — but she was also the concert’s host.

At times they were in celebrity-couple mode, schmoozing their way through Lippen Schweigen from The Merry Widow, to the delight of their fans, though Lehár doesn't, I'm afraid, ideally suit Schrott.

Der Prinz hat nur kurze Zeit bei ihr geruht oder ihr einen flüchtigen Kuss auf die Lippen gedrückt.

Teachers, classmates and host parents with whom Chinese students stay are sometimes overly fervent in proselytizing them, said former Ben Lippen Headmaster David Edgren.

“What we have are wonderful, sensitive, caring, committed Christian people who want so much for this particular Chinese student to come to know the Lord Jesus Christ the way they do,” said Edgren, who now recruits Chinese students for Ben Lippen and other evangelical schools.