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...Writer Paul Grellong’s characters may be undergraduates at Harvard and Yale, but the entanglement of conspiracies that unfold as the play develops makes them old beyond their years. Director Mia P. Walker ’10, producer C. Alex Tremblay ’10, and the cast combined to create a strong and intelligent production of “Manuscript,” but the admirable efforts of all involved only barely overcame the limitations of the script itself...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acting Overcomes Weak Writing in ‘Manuscript’ | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...main challenge that Walker and the cast had to confront in their production was Grellong’s melodramatic script. The play’s complex intrigues come off as somewhat contrived—even though its story of publishing and plagiarism is not unfamiliar to Harvard—but the dialogue often rang even more false. Twice throughout the play, Elizabeth tried to win David to her side, telling him that unlike Chris, the two of them are “old inside.” Moments like this one, where the script was too self-consciously trying...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acting Overcomes Weak Writing in ‘Manuscript’ | 12/3/2007 | See Source »

...ballots were cast, representing 55% of the student body » 47% of ballots were cast within the first 24 hours of voting . » Voters ranked an average of 3.54 tickets on their ballot, out of 6 eligible tickets. » The winning candidate (Petersen-Sundquist) had just 37% (1,314/3,519) of first-place votes, but achieved 54% (1710/3139) of the final redistributed votes under the instant-runoff system » 3 voters ranked “no candidate” as their first choice and a real candidate as their second choice. » Petersen-Sundquist’s campaign Facebook group...

Author: By Roger R. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Instant-Runoff’ Voting Leaves Room for Campaign Strategy; Allows More Voter Input | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...didn’t think there was [anything] to improve,” Snow says. He argued that the UC focuses on a small group of people already involved in the UC, leaving most other students either ignorant or apathetic towards the council’s work. Both repeatedly cast the fact that only about half of the undergraduate population voted in last year’s UC presidential election—even though there were six tickets involved—as evidence of the council’s declining relevance...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reconnecting the UC | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Befitting a place known for adding complexity to seemingly trivial tasks, the votes cast by Harvard students in the Undergraduate Council presidential race will go through an elaborate algorithm before a winner is determined...

Author: By Roger R. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Voting System Can Be Fickle | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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