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...eight hours a day in P Tunnel, a shaft resembling a semifinished subway excavation 1,300 feet below Rainier Mesa. A narrow-gauge electric locomotive takes workers into the tunnel, which ends in a rocky cul- de-sac 1 1/2 miles away. Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testers And Protesters | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon, the professors immediately rose for a standing ovation, according to Professor of Management Practice Arthur I. Segel ’73.“He’s been there a long time and knows the school better than anyone. He’s brilliant, he’s humble, and he has extremely good communication skills,” Segel said of Light. “And—this is really important—he’s an extremely good listener.”Light said at a press conference announcing...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Acting Dean Promoted To Lead B-School | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...show host (Hessel E. Yntema ’09) who frighteningly resembles Hugh Scully, an eccentric, bangled appraiser (Kimberly D. Hagan ’09), and a guileless bird connoisseur (Jon-Mark Overvold ’09) on a mission to get his nifty Parisian telescope appraised. In a brilliant moment, Overvold snaps out of a nap wondering, “Have I been abducted by carnies again?”In the best-delivered scene of the show, two elderly sisters (Zoe K. Kawaller ’09 and Anna C. Smith ’09) brought their...

Author: By Rosa E. Beltran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amateur Acting, Witty Script | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...He’s been there a long time and knows the school better than anyone. He’s brilliant, he’s humble, and he has extremely good communication skills,” Segel said of Light. “And this is really important—he’s an extremely good listener...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Summers Taps Jay O. Light as Business School Dean | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...need tocinematize this play. Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy of mannerisms is perfect as was. Just round up a brilliant cast--Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin and Edith Evans will do fine--and stand back. That's what Anthony Asquith did in the 1952 film: preserved the play's blithe, aphoristic elegance. In the main pairing of lovers, Redgrave's starch ideally suits Greenwood's cello-voiced sense of sexual mischief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Greatest Plays on Film | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

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