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Though it boasts perhaps the most innocuous title in the history of theatre, Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party” is certainly not an average five-year-old’s affair. Devoid of any balloons, streamers, or happy children, Pinter’s play is a dark, existentialist work exploring the madness of human nature lurking just below a superficially harmless exterior. “The Birthday Party” will be on show in the Loeb Expository Theatre from April 3-11. “The Birthday Party” premiered...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Party' Provokes Emotion | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...while NATO gropes for a raison d'être, so too do some of its detractors - Europe's feisty antiwar organizations. Six years after millions of Europeans took to the streets to demonstrate against U.S. plans to invade Iraq, the protest of the latest NATO summit is a sorry affair by comparison. Some 1,000 activists are camped in tents on the edge of Strasbourg in the so-called anti-NATO village, vowing to disrupt this weekend's summit. Several hundred of them, their faces hidden behind black ski masks, gathered in the camp on Thursday afternoon under a warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As NATO Gathers, Its Future Is Looking Cloudy | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...look forward to more opportunities for team racing as a women’s team and hopefully one day a women’s team racing national championship.”Once again the Crimson finished strong to claim their runner-up position over the two-day affair. Harvard was tied for second with Yale with a 7-2 record after day one but then went on to post the best record of Sunday’s championship round at 5-1 to finish 12-3 on the weekend, just back of the Eagles 13-2 mark...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sailing Performs Strongly | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...earned more than $250 million during his NBA career, should be giving out his real-time location on the Internet. But it's clear that he isn't the only celebrity for whom Twitter has changed the relationship between object of adulation and adulator. (Read "Congress's New Love Affair with Twitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrity Twittering: Is That Really You, Shaq? | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...indulge in high amounts of red meat and processed meats, including steak, bacon, sausage and cold cuts, have an increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease. The findings add power to the growing push - by health officials, environmentalists and even some chefs - to cool America's love affair with meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Growing Case Against Red Meat | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

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