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After a two-year hiatus, the Harvard College Freshman Theater Program is back with a new production of Emlyn Williams' The Corn is Green, a tale of a Welsh coal-mining town in the late 1800s. Although the story takes place in the nineteenth century, some of its main themes, such as class struggle, the plight of rural education and the role of women in a male-dominated world, are still quite relevant. At the center of the play is a young Welsh coal miner, Morgan Evans (Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta), who is taken under the wing of the local teacher...
Other characters include a charming group of Welsh peasant men and women who act as something of a chorus in the show, as well as Nicholas Meunier in the role of Idwal Morris, a Welsh coal-miner who always steals the hearts of the audience with his mischievous antics. Both the peasants and Meunier add a touch of well-needed lightness and amusement to the play...
Eschewing diplomatic means in favor of brute, destructive force was at the fundament of her politics; when Britain was faced with the decline of the coal industry, she "broke the unions" and killed off any possibility of an efficient transfer of employment for the thousands of coal miners who lost their jobs. Those miners went on to join the ever-growing ranks of the British unemployed, which kept well above 10 percent for most of her rule...
...Green Party worries about the ecological dangers b) the Social Democrats promised jobs to coal workers c) the country is running out of places to store nuclear waste d) Do you really want Germany to have access to nuclear material...
...been selected to helm the company's next Bond entry. The Lion studio had been trying frantically to find someone, seemingly anyone, to handle the film, with Small Soldiers director JOE DANTE and others chatted up before the SEC filing. Apted, whose well-known films include Nell and Coal Miner's Daughter, has never made an action picture, and his selection seemed a curious, almost desperate choice. "They needed a director for hire," says an agent whose client was also approached for a Bond gig. "With these films, it's not about creating art; it's about making the release...