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...Kameron A. Collins ’09, who had gathered with some 200 other members of the Black Students Association at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub to watch the election-night returns, shared with the Crimson his great-grandmother’s joy at Obama’s victory. “With a black man in the White House,” Mr. Collins’s family concluded that the nonagenarian now “could die happy”: as he explained, “there’s nothing else she could need...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Another Great Awakening | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...witness of the murder, lobotomized.Unfortunately, Ms. Venable and Catherine are not the only characters who have gone crazy in this production; the entire cast has gone with them. Suddenly Tennessee Williams’s play has turned into some sort of zombie nightmare. The cast is laden with heavy black eye makeup, and characters such as Mrs. Foxhill (Rachel A. Stark ’11) shuffle around the stage, stare into the audience with vacant expressions, and speak in monotone. Sister Felicity (Hollie Zegman) even wipes down the floor with red water resembling blood as the action of the play...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Last Summer' Simply Horrifies | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...power of the cast and choreographer.The final number of the evening was a heart-stopping performance of “Steps in the Street” from Martha Graham’s classic anti-war piece “Chronicle.” The dancers, dressed in full-length black garments designed by Graham herself in 1936, proceeded on-stage with rigid shuffles that were accented by the absence of music. An eerie, militaristic theme suddenly blared out, signaling the dancers to cover the stage with repeated, mechanical stag leaps that were almost inhuman in their unfeeling execution. A single...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Missteps at World Premieres | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...since the spring of his sophomore year, and is now the CEB vice-chair. He is also a member of the Fly final club.Schwartz met Biggers, his possible running-mate, through the CEB, of which is the secretary. She is a Pforzheimer resident, the president of the Association of Black Harvard Women, a member of Peer Health Exchange, and a member of the Isis final club.Britt, a Lowell resident, is a sociology concentrator from Maine. He is now in his third year as a UC representative, and his second year as treasurer.Wong, an Eliot resident, a philosophy major hailing from...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rumors Swirl Over UC Election | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

These setbacks have not helped Gaydamak's chances of being elected mayor of the Holy City. He is an outsider, joining an election fray that has polarized the city's black-hatted community of ultra-Orthodox haredim from the rest of its secular inhabitants. The outcome of this race will have repercussions for the Obama Administration's Israel-Palestinian peace plans, since the dilemma of Jerusalem - whether it will be shared with the Palestinians or remain the undivided Jewish capital - lies at the heart of any future accord. Gaydamak's rivals for the mayoralty are an ultra-Orthodox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem's Mayor | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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