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...bind us all together: common friendships and pride in our College. This is why the members of the Undergraduate Council - the official governing body of Harvard College students- want to recreate the spirit of camraderie.in a fun-filled week of celebration. Let these words resound across our campus: March 13th through March 17th shall be declared Spirit Week! To give Spirit Week a fun spin, we decided to give each day of the week a special sartorial flavor. Every day, students will dress up in different outfits to suit the day's topic. Below is the wardrobe schedule...
This immensely amusing scene is just one of the moods evoked in the course of Mee's play, now running at the American Repertory Theatre. "Full Circle" is loosely based on a 13th-century Chinese fable called "The Chalk Circle," but it owes even more to the "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a play by early 20th century German playwright (and confirmed communist) Bertholt Brecht. Rather than simply updating Brecht's version for a new millennium, however, Mee undermines it by setting his story during the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...dried. Last Sunday, Illinois became the first state to address such problems by banning the measure - albeit temporarily - when Governor George Ryan announced an indefinite moratorium on executions pending an investigation into the state's justice system. The last straw came last week when, for the 13th time, the state overturned a conviction of a death row inmate, which means that Illinois has exonerated more death row inmates than it has executed since the death penalty was reinstated. That statistic, said Ryan, was too dramatic too ignore...
...delights of what Czechs affectionately call liquid bread will not be surprised to learn that Czechs consume more beer per capita than any other nationality. In 1998 they quaffed around 170 qts. each, beating the Germans, who managed just 134 qts., into a poor second place. (Americans finished 13th, with 88 qts.) In a league of its own is the Czech Republic's most famous beer, Pilsner Urquell. The original bottom-fermented Pils, or lager, it was first brewed in the Bohemian city of Pilsen in 1842. "It's a Rolls-Royce among beers," purrs Pilsner spokesman Jaroslav Pomp...
...13th century Italy gets paper Finally Europe had a cheap alternative to vellum and parchment. (It took the skins of 80 lambs to create a 200-page parchment manuscript...