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John Vanburgh’s play, currently directed by Mark Wing Davey, tells the story of Brutes, who, flanked by a squadron of drunken rakes, debauched aristocrats and lascivious French maids, turns English Restoration-era London into a battleground for love and fidelity. Tickets available through the Loeb Box Office. Tickets sell for $62-72 and $36-49 discounted. Day of show student rush tickets are $12. Through Dec. 26 at the Loeb...
...networking website has emerged as a campaign battleground this year, with candidates competing for supporters through campaign groups on the site. As of press time, the Moore-Nichols group had 668 members; Glazer-Capp had 428; and the group for Nicolais and his runningmate Samita A. Mannapperuma...
This year, the campaign battleground has extended to the internet, where all three tickets have established websites and formed groups on thefacebook.com. On the facebook, the Glazer-Capp group had 410 members as of yesterday afternoon, placing them second behind Moore and Nichols in terms of online fans...
...there was civility. In New Mexico a law student policing the polls for the Democrats lent her cell phone to her Republican counterpart. In Merrimack, N.H., volunteers from MoveOn.org passed out hot cocoa to activists holding signs outside the polling place--Republicans and Democrats alike. "We might be a battleground state," said voter-protection volunteer Chris L'Estrange in Des Moines, Iowa, "but there's not much of a battle." Florida state troopers suspended safety checkpoints for the day to avoid any accusations of trying to suppress turnout...
...week later the word went out: Kerry had decided against Gutsball. It would take him away from the battleground states when he could least afford it. But that meant August was still going to be a crapshoot, a five-week run through a gauntlet where Bush--or someone acting in his interest--would surely attack Kerry with a well-financed ad campaign. Kerry, meanwhile, would need to sit tight, take the hit and conserve his $75 million for the ad fight after Labor Day. "Opting in was an enormous calculated risk," said an aide. "It meant crossing our fingers...