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...AADT and how this year’s show reflects the mission of this organization. The Harvard Crimson (THC): What makes this year’s Eastbound performance so special? Jieliang Hao (JH): Every year we improve a lot based on past years. This year we managed to attract outside choreographers—someone from Expressions [Dance Company], as well as a South Asian choreographer. Since this is the seniors’ last performance, they are going all out. We also have a lot of incoming freshman that are really talented. The spirit is great this year. In the program...
...nature of history, adolescent angst, and pedophilia—the themes of the play “The History Boys” by English playwright Alan Bennett—will always attract varying interpretations. “One of the biggest things that frustrates me is that people summarize it as a humorous schoolboy comedy,” says Mia P. Walker ’10, director of the show’s latest incarnation opening tonight at the Loeb Ex. Walker, who is also a Crimson Arts writer, is seeking to draw out the play’s more...
...running from the railway station toward Solitary Beauty Peak and Folding Brocade Hill - both featuring prominently on tourist itineraries led by flag-waving, fact-quacking guides. But Zhongshan itself is carpeted with an enticing parade of hawkers: barbecued-meat vendors alternate with bootblacks banging their brushes together to attract custom, grizzled farmers hunch over mounds of dried persimmons, and pickled-vegetable sellers rub shoulders with eco-entrepreneurs whose handwritten signboards tout for secondhand MP3 players...
While the overall number of such incidents in Germany has actually gone down very slightly over the past three decades, those that do occur attract much more public attention, especially school shootings. "These days the ritualization of the deed is often very pronounced - thus the mask and combat gear," Adler says. "For the perpetrator, the choice of weapon, for instance, is very important as a way to define his dangerousness." The bodies of the slain are still lying where they fell in the high school, waiting for the attention of crime scene staff and medical examiners. German politicians across...
...into the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) in 2001 changed the image of law enforcement dramatically. A policy of positive discrimination has seen the number of Catholic officers jump from less than 3% to over 20% in five years. The force has also launched recruitment drives to attract more women and ethnic minorities. Members of Sinn Fein, the republican political party with close links to the IRA, now sit on Northern Ireland's Policing Board. Monday's shooting, therefore, was both an attack on an old enemy and an assault on one of the most progressive symbols...