Word: caste
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This year's show, A Tsar is Born, was co-authored by Mark Baskin, a Dunster House senior, and Jason Cooper, a junior from Kirkland House. Baskin and Cooper met two years ago, when both were in the cast of Romancing the Throne...
...play is an assured, carefully crafted work, but also something of a disappointment. The ricocheting dialogue verges on self-parody, and it doesn't have the realistic underpinnings (or the humor) of American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross. No one can blame the fine cast-Ed Begley Jr., Felicity Huffman and young Shelton Dane-whom Mamet has directed. They help locate the fierce humanity inside this cryptic game...
...beginning of his career in Washington, Fulbright focused on world affairs, submitting, as a freshman Representative in 1943, the resolution that ultimately led to the creation of the United Nations; he initiated the scholars' exchange program two years later when he reached the Senate. Independent by nature, he cast the lone vote against funding Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist investigation in 1954 and traded blows on foreign policy with every President from Truman to Nixon, though he reserved his greatest criticism for Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnam War. The televised hearings he led in 1966 and 1967 as chairman...
...preferences as a clear remedy for current discrimination--especially when they channel benefits to blacks already in the middle class, sometimes at the expense of less affluent whites. And even among African Americans, who still support affirmative action by wide margins, there is resentment about the way it can cast doubt on the genuine abilities of anyone who benefits...
Taking his visitors on a slow walking tour of Havana's labyrinthine Palacio de la Revolucion, Castro gestures toward an enormous mosaic of birds, animals and flowers that dominates the reception hall and quietly begins a story. The artist, he explains, cast the ceramic tiles at the same time the architect was completing the building's interior. Through some misunderstanding between the two men, the ceiling was built too low. When it came time to install the intricately etched tiles, the top two rows did not fit. The artist never forgave the architect whose miscalculations robbed his mosaic...