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Call it China's trial of the 21st century. Not since Mao Zedong's wife and her fellow members of the reviled Gang of Four were tried in 1980 has a courtroom trial so captured the attention of the nation. For one thing, there's the sheer scale of the operation that brought more than 30 defendants to court this week: a crackdown on the alliance of criminal gangs and their corrupt official collaborators who have terrorized a huge metropolis for years. Thousands of suspects were questioned, some 1,500 were arrested, bribes in the tens of millions of renminbi...
...improvement on the women’s side proved even more drastic than the team’s male counterpart, as the Crimson rolled to a 12th-place showing after coming in 21st a year ago. Harvard relied on three top-50 runners to start off the scoring, with freshman Sammy Silva joining Richardson and Kuzmuk at the front. Richardson and Kuzmuk hung together throughout the race, finishing 31st and 33rd with times of 21:19.0 and 21:21.5, respectively...
...Through the Electra myth, Sartre’s work skillfully explores notions of free will and human essence. This mélange of existentialism and Greek mythology would have been unremarkable to the 20th century audience for whom the play was written. But redefined within the contours of the 21st century—as the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production which opened this Friday demonstrates—“The Flies” becomes incredibly more complex...
Successfully adapting this chef d’oeuvre for the 21st century is one of greatest challenges for Geordie F. Broadwater ’04, the director, and his collaborators. Most obviously, they modified the dialogue, adding humor and irony to the first three quarters of the play. Teenage jargon—“dude,” “you’re so hot”—was inserted into some lighthearted scenes. Though the play can be funny, at times the alternating philosophy and humor becomes too obvious; the audience knows that...
...observing Public Service Week now, we honor a commitment made by Harvard through the ages. One hundred and forty years ago today, Charles W. Eliot was installed as the 21st president of Harvard. It was his fervent belief that the university must, as he put it, “foster the sense of public duty—that great virtue which makes republics possible...