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...plays. But Irish playwright Bryony Lavery breaks the formula by bringing the characters together for a few key confrontations, and the superb actors (Brian F. O?Byrne, Swoosie Kurtz and Laila Robbins) help keep our eyes transfixed on events almost too terrible to contemplate. The fact that this bleak and unsettling play transferred from off-Broadway to the land of Mamma Mia and The Lion King (where, even if it wins a Tony or two, it has slim chance of surviving) is a sign there?s at least some daring left on Broadway...
After last week’s release of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR), the future of the concentration system looks bleak. The central suggestions found in Section V of the HCCR report prescribe a significant reform of the present structure that stands to compromise the academic experience of vast numbers of undergraduates—especially, and most unfortunately, for those currently engaged in the sort of international and interdisciplinary study the curricular review aspires to provide for every student. While the report provides commendable solutions for improvements within the existing departments, the College would do well to abandon plans...
...state run, the other owned by the son of military-intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt. The universities, traditionally crucibles of antigovernment protest, are open again?but only for master's students; the rest must study by correspondence or at campuses far from the city. Job prospects for graduates remain bleak, which is why Rangoon's taxi drivers are the world's most overqualified. "Everyone is misplaced in this country," shrugs a young cabbie with a master's degree in marine biology. "Graduates drive taxis; soldiers run the government...
...sound. When I noted that at 32, he had practically reached retirement age for a militant, Salama firmly shook his head. "The happiest day of my life was when I went back to this war after I was wounded," he said. " The day I am not active is bleak to me. The only thing that harms Hamas is those who do nothing...
Just last month, things in Harvard athletics looked increasingly bleak, mirroring the New England winter that just wouldn’t seem...