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...original playwright, Rebecca Gilman. The play was named one of the best productions of 1999 by Time, but the exasperatingly clichéd film will not receive any such honor.The plot centers on a series of racist threats received by a black student at the predominantly white Belmont College in Vermont. The ensuing uproar at the small liberal arts school reveals hidden prejudices, brings tension bubbling to the surface, and leads to violence. Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Sarah Daniels, the newly hired Dean of Students who strives for sensitivity yet needs to keep her job. Dean Daniels struggles...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spinning Into Butter | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...take over as Vice-Mayor at last night’s meeting. Both were then given the oath of office by City Clerk led by Margaret Drury. After the ceremonies, many Cambridge residents remained to debate plans for development in the Silver Maple Forest in neighboring Belmont, what residents referred to as one of the few remaining open spaces in an urban environment. The plans would sanction the construction of a 40B residential housing complex, intended to provide “low or moderate income” housing. Residents at the meeting said that the affected communities—Belmont...

Author: By Danella H. Debel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Council Swears in Leadership | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...They're telling you how to live and what to do, and they're doing it right here in America.' EDITH FREDERICKSON, a 72-year-old smoker in Belmont, Calif., where a strict antismoking law has effectively outlawed lighting up in all apartment buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Belmont, Mass. and Kirkland House...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Announcing the 136th Guard of The Harvard Crimson | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

Here's a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn't get her book published for love or money. She had a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard, but she couldn't get an agent. "I did what you're supposed to do," she says. "I queried literary agents. I went to writers' conferences and tried to network. I e-mailed editors. Nobody wanted it." So Genova paid $450 to a company called iUniverse and published her book, Still Alice, herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Gone Wild: The Digital Age Reshapes Literature | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

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