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Boston-based music-video producer Steve Garfield, 46, is no ordinary blogger. Instead of simply posting his thoughts online in a chatty weblog like millions of others around the world, he links a Canon GL2 digital video camera to his laptop and uploads short clips of protest rallies, traffic short-cuts and even news events onto his personal Internet site...
...images out of Abu Ghraib prison fit into the canon of torture tactics? Soldiers claim they were told by military intelligence officers to "soften up" the detainees for questioning. Certainly, putting hoods over prisoners' heads and stripping them naked would conform to common, if primitive, interrogation-prep tactics. Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has witnessed military training for interrogations, confirms that sexual humiliation is also a well-known tool. "The idea of interrogation is to break down the person so all his resistance is shot, and then he'll tell you anything," he says. "In the process, sexual humiliation...
Explaining his penchant exploring unchartered territory and directing independent student works, Broadwater says, “I’m tired of seeing the same plays over and over. [Although] revisiting classic texts is important and extremely fun, I think that we need to expand our canon and search beyond Shakespeare, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams for new plays to do. Performing a student-written play is almost always worth doing, unless of course the play is terrible, which sometimes they...
Explaining his penchant exploring unchartered territory and directing independent student works, Broadwater says, “I’m tired of seeing the same plays over and over. [Although] revisiting classic texts is important and extremely fun, I think that we need to expand our canon and search beyond Shakespeare, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams for new plays to do. Performing a student-written play is almost always worth doing, unless of course the play is terrible, which sometimes they...
...fantastic centerpiece to a Harvard education. (Whether in practice they will be nothing more than Core classes with traditional hoop-jumping and banal response papers, of course, remains to be seen.) Still, it is excellent news that a real attempt may soon be made to restore an academic canon obscured by the nonsensical ethos of the Core...