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...LITTLE Claudio Aballay's penis received a good deal of media attention earlier this month. The Globe and other newspapers carried detailed description of the 1981 freak motorbike accident which left the 11-year-old Virginia boy castrated. Rushing to a little league soccer match aboard the back of his dad's cycle. Claudio lost his pecker as the bike narrowly avoided a collision with a truck. Somehow, the back of the truck caught against the boy's blue jeans, and rip! Underwear and all. The 18-month-old tragedy made headlines because of a miraculous epilogue...
Professors in the Comparative and English departments yesterday lauded Levin and his contributions to Harvard and the academic community. Claudio Guillen, chairman of the Comparative Literature Department, recalled that Levin, as a young man, wrote a paper entitled "Literature as an Institution." Guillen added, "Little did he know then that he would become...
...reprobates, fops, split-second marriages, and a Duke ex machina, Measure for Measure is a grabbag of Elizabethan dramatic tricks. Set in Vienna where, in the absence of the Duke, the deputy Angelo is ruling with impeccable stridency, the play is loosely concerned with the fate of the libertine, Claudio, who must pay for an indiscretion with his head in order to serve notice that the law long lax under the Duke, now has new metal in it. As Claudio awaits execution in his jail cell, however, the real plot begins. Claudio's sister, Isabelle, pleads for mercy...
...Isabelle's refusal to yield to Angelo's desires condemns her brother to death and even in the context of 17th-century Christianity, it comes off as little more than brutality, and Angelo's subsequent breach of his promise, as he orders Claudio's execution, is utterly despicable. Even when the Duke returns in disguise of a friar, and devises an elaborate plan to save Isabelle's honor, spare Claudio's head, and unmask the culprits--his plan is so strangely convoluted--a series of lesser sins to offset greater crimes--that it is barely within the letter, and certainly...
...Angel Claudio is a lucky young man. The legal system, which has become a system of technicalities, works for him and not for justice. What more does the system need than a confession and some evidence to back up the case? The law has become a game between lawyers...