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...Bess P. Rosen ’11, who has a surprising gem of a solo halfway through the play as the overly motherly Teresa Vandershmidt. Amidst all this, “Castaways” also manages to sneak in a bit of satire on American culture, lampooning our blind belief in politics as well as our preoccupation with material goods. When the South American tour guides, in rather Italian accents, tell the tourists that the boat won’t be coming back, Brandon tells them not to be silly. “We’ve only paid half...
Fortunately, three new books may help remedy that Latin America blind spot and remind us that the hemisphere too is flat. They all take a hard, engaging and overdue look at Latin America's maddening complacency and massive potential--and suggest how to transform it into "the century of the Americas," as George W. Bush declared...
...Gavin DeGraw is, in fact, a widely-known major contemporary music presence. His first album, Chariot, went platinum and sent four singles to the top of the Billboard music charts. And unlike last year’s artist, Third Eye Blind, DeGraw can’t be called “out of date”; he will release a new album in just two weeks. Its first single, “In Love with a Girl,” is already climbing the charts...
...justify. We grow accustomed to seeing the same unfortunate people in the Square: the same sleeping bags outside the Coop at night, the same cajoling man selling Spare Change News outside Au Bon Pain, the same lady on the benches in front of Bank of America. Familiarity breeds blind comfort, and somewhere along the line, we begin to see our neighbors in the Square as the nameless homeless, instead of people much like ourselves. We cease at last to be sympathetic to their misfortunes or interested in their lives, instead coming to ignore them outright. Finally, we participate...
...Adam of our creation , has always been subservient to its inhabitants. Thus, we never thought twice about relying on it to be a safe place for us to study, learn, and experiment—day in, day out. And yet… What evils have we been turning blind eyes to? What goes on in those murky basement areas, outside the supervision of Man? Like Frankenstein’s monster, the Science Center has risen up against us, forsaking its makers, leaving us betrayed and vulnerable. The spill occurred, according to Dean Smith, in an area that is not used...