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...Holocaust,” it’s tough to know exactly what the audience is in for. Rachel E. Flynn ‘09, a comparative study of religion concentrator from Quincy House, is directing Martin Sherman’s 1979 play, “BENT,” which will run from October 5-13 in the Loeb Experimental Theater. BENT follows the life of a gay couple during the Holocaust, focusing on everything from the hilarious foibles of romance to the chilling reality of death."It seems at the outset to be a play about these...
...moral authority to the movement; they are leading the protests. The shift is significant, particularly for a junta that has tried to burnish its influence by linking itself to Buddhism. Burma's government-run newspapers regularly display generals lavishing money on building new pagodas and monasteries. "The junta has bent over backwards to show how good Buddhists they are," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "For them to legitimize a crackdown, they will have to prove that the protests are being led by misguided monks who are actually misusing Buddhism...
...this for a 21st century romance: Dr. Laura Minikel met Bent Balle on an airplane in 2000--she returning to the U.S. from practicing medicine in Africa, he escorting his parents on holiday from their native Denmark. Minikel and Balle chatted throughout the 11-hour flight and later met for coffee near her home in San Francisco before Balle returned to Denmark. They fell in love (through e-mail) and married in 2005 (in person), celebrating in four cities with friends and family. Are they happy? Yes. Are they together? Not exactly. Minikel, 37, remains in California to practice obstetrics...
Calm as the horizon, lying flat on his stretcher with his stolid wife and 50-year-old son in chairs beside him, Nick was down. About an hour earlier he had bent over to put on his socks and his leg had collapsed. So his wife and son dragged him to the car, and here he was in my hospital...
...Opposition parties hold that Musharraf's second bid for the presidency violates the country's constitution, a somewhat flimsy document that has been bent more times in the service of keeping military generals in power than preventing them from ascending. Officially, the document prohibits military officers from holding and running for civilian posts in the government until two years after retirement. But in 2002, Musharraf circumvented that constitutional clause with a one-term exemption that was legitimated by a then docile Supreme Court...