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...high holiday seasons here at Harvard, I was dumbfounded to read the remarkably closed-minded opinion piece “The Eleventh Plague” (Opinion, Oct. 1). During the holidays, Harvard Hillel sponsored the religious services of four separate prayer communities—each with its own unique character??and the Chabad House at Harvard held its own set of traditional and yet highly participatory services. Both Hillel and the Chabad House also served family-style meals and break-fasts which were free to all undergraduates. If the authors felt alienated by the Reform services on Rosh...
...main puppet—I mean character??is Gary Johnston, a promising young actor and star of a hip Broadway show named Lease. After one show, he’s recruited by Spottswoode, a Hugh Hefner look-alike puppet that runs Team America: an elite group of commandos that, in the name of freedom and saving the day, invariably destroy everything around them whenever they leap into action. A double-major in acting and world languages, Gary is exactly the man Team America needs for their newest undercover operation: infiltrate the terrorists’ hideout in order...
...don’t know if we’ve ever talked about considering a target as much as trying to tell the story from the lead character??s point of view,” says Stone, who co-wrote the script. Though many filmmakers earnestly espouse a similar philosophy, rarely do they make their lead characters puppets...
...change in Murphy’s attitude reflects an unanticipated change in Howell’s character??not his technical ability. That’s not to say the junior cornerback’s skills haven’t been honed in the past year. They have. But almost overshadowing that improvement has been the enormous growth in Howell’s confidence. And Murphy has certainly taken notice, promoting Howell above Sonkur and Danny Tanner, Butler’s primary backup last season...
...Billionaires themselves can be a bit fuzzy on their unironic identity when it goes beyond their talking points on class-based issues like health care, the minimum wage and war profiteering. Members are prohibited from explicitly endorsing any presidential candidate out of character??and indeed, when the group was founded on a smaller level in 2000 it called itself “Billionaires for Bush or Gore...