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...very complexity of this issue demands that we cast a critical eye on all well-intentioned efforts to remedy global health deficiencies worldwide, no matter who leads these efforts or the monetary backing accompanying them. Bill Gates’ recent pledge of $10 billion toward global immunization of children is no exception...
...Jersey Shore” follows four male and four female cast members over the course of one summer in Seaside Heights, a popular vacation destination forty-five minutes from my fond vacations to LBI. The housemates, who range in age from 21 to 28, boast artificial tans, breasts, and hair; the men are alarmingly muscled and the women are alarmingly under-clothed. They proudly self-identify as “guidos” and “guidettes”—terms considered ethnic slurs by outraged Italian anti-defamation groups...
...cast members do earn their keep by “working,” peddling T-shirts at a boardwalk store owned by their landlord. Beyond that, little mention is made of any professional goals or aspirations. Angelina’s explanation of her job is an unintentional punchline (“I’m a bartender,” she tells us, “I do, like, you know, great things.”), and the larger objective of Pauly’s DJ gigs is to entice female club-goers. They?...
...supporting cast performs admirably, but they are overshadowed by the crime-solving pair. Mark Strong plays Lord Blackwood, the villain of the piece, a man determined to take over England and who seems to be employing supernatural powers towards that end. Strong is suitably menacing but entirely forgettable, enabling the duo of Watson and Holmes to steal the show with ease. The two leading men are accompanied by two less-than-leading ladies—Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) as Holmes’s former flame and Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly) as Watson’s fianc?...
Director Michael M. Donahue ’05 says he and the organizers of the production went to Common Casting last fall without a set number of undergraduates in mind. Besides choosing six production assistants, they ended up selecting three freshmen to round out their cast. These nine students also participated in the A.R.T. Institute’s January Undergraduate Theater Training Intensive, a graduate-level theater program from January 4 to January...