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...Savitsky first acted in high school, and pursued it at Harvard until she fell into costuming, assistant directing, and ultimately producing. She learned the ropes of each job informally. Savitsky says she has done everything from visiting a bleak but beautiful island off the coast of Ireland that greatly influenced the playwright of “The Playboy of the Western World” to spending eight hours burning prom dresses for the costumes of prisoners in another play, so that they might look as though they had been “dragged out of the furnace...
...those things happening, I felt really helpless,” he says. “I felt like I couldn’t do anything at Harvard.”So De Beausset returned to his father’s shrimp farm on Guatemala’s Pacific coast. He spent his time ensuring the accountability of the non-governmental organizations that had raised money for the relief effort. But in December, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would tighten American borders and force employers to verify prospective employees’ legality. Outraged by the House?...
...reads like something you would expect to find on the home-made desk of the local eccentric after he died. This first in a multi-volume series (aren't they all?), introduces a sui generis world of oddballs who live on a mysterious island, presumably somewhere off the Atlantic coast of the U.S., sometime prior to the Civil War. The premise of the first book has Bertha Snodgrass, the grade-school-age daughter of the island's governor, deciding to buy a slave on the mainland and bring him back to do her chores. You can't fault Grady...
...Coburn, a Republican Senator from Oklahoma, has a problem with the $106 billion bill the Senate is working on that would help pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, preparation in case of a breakout of avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many tangentially related projects. Well, actually, the first-term Senator has at least 19 concerns. He called $176 million in the bill to refurbish a retirement home in Mississippi for veterans an "arbitrary sum." Another $10 million to equip fishing boats with logbooks to record data on how much they fish they...
...cause, but our future work to end global suffering is even more important. After all, the most efficient way to keep immigrants from invading a country is to give them a reason to stay in the areas from which they come. Tomorrow, I return to the rural south pacific coast of Guatemala to do just that for a family, and I hope that others will do likewise. Kyle A. de Beausset ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is a environmental science and public policy concentrator in Leverett House. He runs the “Immigration Orange?...