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...can’t truly have the effect of promoting public awareness anymore, then what does lifting the ban really prove? On one hand, I think there has been a populist (and justified) desire to reverse many of the restrictions on freedom of speech and press resulting from America??s last two wars. On the other hand, I think our present understanding of privacy has created a sense of entitlement to what is traditionally considered the utmost private and personal aspects of our lives.Before the advent of digital cameras and the internet, photography was used for mostly personal...
...despite all this, 20,000 people gathered in Prague to hear America??s new leader speak this weekend, and by all accounts Obama was a smashing success. His Czech appearance proves once again that he has the charm and tact it takes to work with any country—no matter how much it supports U.S. policies...
...speaker Matt Lauer represents a lower-profile lineup than those to whom Harvard students have historically been accustomed. However, Chu’s lack of widespread name recognition in no way forestalls him from delivering an engaging and insightful address. An eloquent proponent of novel approaches to achieving America??s energy self-sufficiency, Chu will surely offer important insights into the progress of our national efforts and the role of Harvard students in bringing these efforts to fruition. The choice of an energy secretary as Commencement speaker testifies to the importance of alternative energy research to both...
...Angels in America?? sweeps back into focus for its second night, more vibrant and complex than the evening before. The second half, fittingly called “Perestroika,” a Russian term for restructuring, initiates and affects a profound upheaval in the emotional and spiritual lives of its characters. As the vague connections between all six main characters begin to develop into close relationships, the masks slip from their faces, revealing what truly lies at their core. The most gentle characters, like Harper and Belize, turn out to have the greatest strength of mind and character...
...Millennium Approaches”—the first part of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play “Angels in America??—has the potential to be performed either as a riveting commentary on the height of the AIDS epidemic and what it truly meant to live as a homosexual in this time, or as a sorry excuse for intertwining the clichéd dramatic motifs of death, abandonment, love, religion, and truth. Friday’s opening on the Loeb Mainstage—directed by Sara...