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...romantic flings with both), shuttled between the American Ballet Theatre and Hollywood and then, in 2002, rocked Broadway with Movin' Out, her dance musical set to Billy Joel's greatest hits. Ballet choreographers like Jerome Robbins had done musicals before, but Tharp broke new ground, building a hit show almost entirely out of dance--and redefining what a Broadway musical could be.(See eight great Broadway shows...
...Texas' first such skirmish. Since the 1970s, the state has tried to drop books that were seen as too liberal or anti-Christian, to omit passages on the gay-rights movement and to tone down global-warming arguments. But the nation's battle over textbooks stretches back almost half a century earlier. In 1925, Tennessee's Butler Act (which was repealed in 1967) made it illegal to teach "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible." The Scopes "monkey trial" famously followed. In 1974, a clash erupted in Kanawha County, West...
Last semester, Hammonds was left with the task of filling House Master positions in almost a quarter of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses. Within a span of two weeks during the end of 2009, Cabot House Masters Jay M. Harris and Cheryl L. Harris, Eliot House Masters Lino Pertile and Anna Bensted, and Mather House Masters Sandra F. Naddaff ’75 and Leigh G. Hafrey ’73 announced that they will step down from their positions at the end of the academic year, citing a variety of reasons ranging from a heavy workload...
...side had its own share of success led by co-captain Jack Brady, who captured three top-three finishes. Brady started off with a decisive victory for Harvard in the discus throw, posting a mark of 49.01 meters that surpassed the second-place finisher’s score by almost 11 meters. He then led the Crimson in the hammer throw by earning the runner-up title with a score of 56.74 meters. Juniors Eric Clayman and Ablorde Ashigbi closely followed him to help Harvard claim a two-four-five finish in the event. In the shot put, freshman Edwin...
...really nice rally,” McCarthy said. “We almost came back and won it, but it was just too little, too late...