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...relentless experimenter. His plays might conflate the action in several rooms in one stage space or go backward in time or branch off into different permutations, but his formal ingenuity is matched by his ability to create incredibly vivid, fully realized characters who live on even after they've left the stage. The multiple perspectives prove it: Norman, the randy assistant librarian who puts the moves on two sisters-in-law, reveals new sides in each room, scene and play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Ayckbourn: Man of the Moment | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Origins, a wellness-based beauty brand with a full line of plant-based skin-care, makeup, and body care products, kicked off its Return to Origins Recycling Program at the beginning of this month. The Brattle Street branch, along with other retail locations across the country, is collecting customers’ empty cosmetic containers to be recycled or burned to produce electricity...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Stores Celebrate Earth Day | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...hadn't been for Q Branch," the secret service gadget master known simply as Q tells James Bond in 1989's License to Kill, "you'd have been dead long ago." As the fatherly boffin responsible for arming and protecting the British spy since the early 1960s, Q has tinkered with super cars (Bond's amphibious Lotus in The Spy Who Loved Me which came with torpedoes and mines), invented cunning weapons (a key chain in The Living Daylights that used gas to disorientate the enemy, followed by an explosive charge) and regularly came up with ingenious tools (a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Imitates Bond: Britain Seeks a Real-Life Q | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...claimed that the Allston community had lost a “grocery store,” when in fact no such establishment has closed. Also, it asserted that Harvard’s cranes in Allston are idle, when in fact they are still operating. Finally, it implied that the branch of Finale that recently opened in Allston was a vender, when it was actually a production facility. The Crimson regrets the errors...

Author: By Megan A. Shutzer | Title: Let Them Eat Cake | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...recently took significant steps to repair the damage done to American justice by the Bush administration, issuing an executive order banning torture and releasing three previously classified memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel—a group of lawyers who provide binding legal advice to the executive branch. However, in order to truly close the book on the dark days of America’s endorsement of torture, Obama should go further and see that those who committed torture are held accountable for their actions...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Renouncing Torture | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

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