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...ethical. It may have been the only approach to take in Paulson and Bernanke's views. The SEC may claim that the action was not legal because Lewis had an obligation to disclose the conversation to both his board and to his shareholders. He was being asked to act against the interests of the bank he runs in the name of the national interest...
...Obama’s presidency provides America with a window of opportunity to engage with Iran and chart a new productive course forward. But we must act soon, we must act intelligently, and we must recognize that preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is important, but it is just one piece in the larger fight against nuclear proliferation worldwide—a fight we (and the world) must...
...would be silly not to pick up on the light aspects,” Sarnak says. The Quad that the musical’s title refers to is not the Radcliffe Quadrangle. Rather, it is the four main female leads that the musical tracks from their freshman (Act I) to senior (Act II) years. Along the way, they discover sketchy parties, the “Walk of Shame”, and, eventually, themselves. Although the musical is not set specifically at Harvard, it bears such hallmark phrases of the alma mater as “TF?...
...slot of the spring season. “The Space Between” is an exploration of how to make theoretical physics manifest on stage. Inspired by the late Samuel Beckett, the play lacks a traditional form. Instead, it is divided into the intertwining stories of different couples who act almost as analogous pairs. The principle couple is Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, and his wife, who in this play is called Eurydice. Both are dying and reflecting on their youth. Another story involves a Biblical Adam and Eve, echoed by a modern Adam...
History's most famous suicide happened more than 2,000 years ago: rather than surrender to the Romans who had captured her Egypt, the lovelorn Queen Cleopatra succumbed to the venomous bite of an asp. Ancient historians chronicled the act, Shakespeare dramatized it, and HBO even added its own to spin to the tragedy with the lavish TV series "Rome." Yet while we may know how Cleopatra died of snake poison, after her consort Mark Antony fell on his sword, archaeologists have yet to pin down where the legendary couple was laid to rest...