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...doubtful that Nicolas Sarkozy has ever heard of the late Texan country singer Ernest Tubb, a rhinestone cowboy with a honky-tonk twang. But last week the French Interior Minister seemed to be humming a French version of Tubb's 1970 classic, It's America (Love It or Leave It). "If it bothers people to be in France, then it shouldn't bother them to leave a country they don't love," Sarkozy said. It's hardly a new refrain; the far-right National Front has used France: love it or leave it as a slogan for years. Perhaps...
Soft lighting reflected off classic long-stemmed wine glasses, complementing tall bottles of Merlot, plates piled with Jarlsberg and Brie, and the gray-tinted chalkboard—not what one would expect on a typical Wednesday night at Harvard Law School (HLS). But for the members of In Vino Veritas, it was business as usual.“Okay, guys, we’re going to get started,” third-year law student Tom Brown, who led the wine-tasting that evening, says, clinking together two tall water bottles. Background chatter died out as the members, still students...
...Richard II” going up in the Loeb Ex this weekend. Directed by Adam G. Zalisk ’07 and produced by Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, this new adaptation of the classic history play seeks to reinvigorate the Elizabethan text with modern influences as disparate as tennis great John McEnroe and the detritus of a collegiate Saturday night. The play, which recounts the disintegration of King Richard II’s reign and Henry Bolingbroke’s subsequent bloody accession to the throne, is in many...
...Duke lacrosse scandal. The notion of a 27-year-old black woman, who is a student at a historically black college and a single mother of two, being hired as an exotic dancer for - and then allegedly raped by - generally privileged, younger white men conjures up memories of that classic American sex story: the pretty female slave being summoned up to the big house to sexually satisfy the master...
...resulted in an intensely dim, albeit appropriate, setting. Cabot’s “West Side Story” is an ambitious attempt to reproduce this play, especially in such an unorthodox venue. As a student performance, Cabot House Musical Theatre ensemble should be applauded for adapting the classic for new audiences and exhibiting the talent of students who do not usually participate in Harvard’s theater community...