Word: amanda
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...play. Modernizing old classics to make them relatable again is a perilous venture, sometimes rewarding—like in the Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger film “Ten Things I Hate About You”—but often disastrous, such as in the Shakespeare-inspired Amanda Bynes flick “She’s the Man.” Although director James M. Leaf ’11 took great pains to keep the dialogue current, the set and costumes were wildly anachronistic, making it all the more clear that the gender issues Aristophanes explored...
...written by César Franck and featured some professionally trained dancers and other undergraduates. The piece, choreographed by Claudia F. Schreier ’08, focused on various leg movements and lifts by performers Puanani H. Brown ’12, James C. Fuller ’10, Amanda C. Lynch ’10, Kevin Shee ’11, and Elizabeth C. Walker ’11. The interplay between the bodies of the two male dancers and three female dancers throughout the performance created an overall elegance and grace comparable to that of any professional company.When...
...controversy within the UC. In an email over the UC List, Josh J. Nuni '10 declared that the UC has "come to a point where we have to make a decision—and the decision we make will reveal our values and define our identity." Another UC member, Amanda Lu '11 responded to Nuni saying, "I would like to be able to disagree with what I find to be beneficial to my constituents without being called a tyrant." Before the claws come out any further, FlyBy decided to take a closer look at what the property in contention...
...interview, General Turner would not discuss the personal lives of the victims, but his report noted that all four were in "failed or failing" relationships. Yet he conceded that "the work environment might have been relevant in their relationship problems." The claim of a failing relationship is denied by Amanda Henderson and by testimony from fellow recruiters. And an Army crisis-response team dispatched to Houston in October to look into last summer's two suicides cited a poor work environment - not domestic issues...
...Amanda Henderson, who lost both her husband and her boss to suicide last year, has left that battlefield. "The Army didn't take care of my husband or Sergeant Flores the way they needed to," she says. Though still in the Army, she has quit recruiting and returned to her former job as a supply sergeant at Fort Jackson. Because of the poor economy, she says, she plans to stay in uniform at least until her current enlistment is up in 2011. "Some days I say I've just got to go on," she says. "Other days I'll just...