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...freshman—watch out for this one!), dramatized a child’s fantasy of her toys coming alive while she sleeps. Featuring a wind-up ballerina (Samantha K. Yu ’11), whose carefully controlled convulsions suggested that she ran on high-octane fuel, the act proved a delightful vision of the Nutcracker on acid.Harvard Bhangra broke up the monotony of a less memorable second half with an awesome display of traditional Indian dance. Amidst all the popping and locking robotic limbs that characterized most of the show, the group was a welcome anachronism. Decked...
Since its enactment in 2001, President Bush’s widely-criticized “No Child Left Behind” act has drawn attacks from every possible front: From the left for being too vague in defining “national standards,” from the right for being an “unfunded mandate,” and now, from Cambridge’s premier repertory theater for being all-around not good enough. Playwright and actress Nilaja Sun’s solo performance makes “No Child”—directed...
...title suggests, the play is intended to be more than a one-woman stand-up routine. “No Child” fancies itself an account of both the failings of public education and the efforts to reform it through the No Child Left Behind act...
Pring-Wilson's attorney, E. Peter Parker, could not be reached for comment Friday. He told the Associated Press: "We are thrilled that a number of jurors at this trial saw the commonwealth's case for what it was, and found that Alex's conduct was a justified act of self-defense." —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu. FOR THE CRIMSON'S COMPLETE PRING-WILSON COVERAGE, CLICK HERE
...Musharraf's announcement that the state of emergency was over, one day ahead of schedule, included a new rationale for why he called it in the first place. He had been forced to act, he said, because unnamed conspirators had schemed with members of the judiciary to destabilize Pakistan and upset a return to democracy. "Against my will, as a last resort, I had to impose the emergency in order to save Pakistan," he said. "The conspiracy was hatched to destabilize the country. I cannot tell how much pain the nation and I suffered due to this conspiracy...