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...Invitation for an Intervention The Oct. 8 cover stated, "The World is Watching" the Burmese regime's crackdown on demonstrators. Was that phrasing a warning or a comfort? How often has the world watched conflicts begin, unfold and end without lifting a finger? It seems there are repeatedly much reporting, much hand-wringing and many U.N. speeches, fact-finding visits and economic sanctions but very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed...
When his interviewer arrives, Tom Stoppard is standing outside the Broadway theater where his latest play, Rock 'n' Roll, is about to begin previews. Sporting an open white shirt with the sleeves partly rolled up and tousled (if graying) hair that still gives him the look of an overage college student, he's enjoying a cigarette in a circle of warm spring sunshine that has managed to find a hole in the Manhattan skyline. But he really should be off his feet. A few days earlier, in the rush to catch a plane to New York City, Stoppard stubbed...
...always given the Potter books a pass on the lack of gay characters because, especially at first, they were intended for little kids. But particularly with the appearance of the long, violent later books, Rowling allowed her witches and wizards to grow up, to get zits and begin romances, to kill and die. It seemed odd that not even a minor student character at Hogwarts was gay, especially since Rowling was so p.c. about inventing magical creatures of different races and species, incomes, national origins and developmental abilities. In a typical passage, Blaise Zabini is described as a "tall black...
...been honored with a Fulbright Award in Visual and Performing Arts, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Rella Lossy Playwriting Award, and the Weston Award in Dramatic Writing.Currently, Evans teaches introductory courses in playwriting and screenwriting at Harvard, and will teach advanced courses in each this spring.Although she did not begin writing plays until after receiving her bachelor’s degree in English, Evans felt pulled toward writing early in life.“In a way, most writers know what they wish to do from a very early age. Most have a sacred inner voice that tells us we?...
...don’t begin to grapple with these issues now, and if we learn to assume that the impetus will always come from “above,” where will we be when we, the students, the under-appreciated, find ourselves as policymakers in these governments, brokers in these markets, or researchers in these labs? Perhaps we sound puerile in taking one bout of newspaper reporting and raising the stakes so high; but the reality is that we sell ourselves short if we aim any lower...