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...50th.” Beyond the sentimental significance, “Ruddigore” is an entertaining operetta. An innocent village beauty, Rose Maybud (Caitlin Vincent, ’07) discovers that her love Robin Oakapple is actually Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, who is obligated by a family curse to commit at least one evil every day of his life. The fickle Maybud then finds comfort in the arms of Sir Ruthven’s half-brother, Dick Dauntless. The story unfolds—against a backdrop of portraits coming to life, professional bridesmaids plotting to marry off villagers for financial...

Author: By April B. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Night at the Operetta | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...upcoming Yale game, Donato won’t commit to a starter, relying instead on his old standby, “We’ll wait until the end of the week...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rematch Against Yale Begins Hectic Week | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

...that they're scarred permanently. I don't think you can go through something like this and just come out ready to work and ready to operate. One of the problems that the communities face is that sometimes the kids who are forced to fight are forced to commit atrocities against their own community members, to disconnect them from their communities, and make it impossible for them to go back. So they have nothing to do but fight, because they have nowhere to go. So then the war is ended, and now you have this kid who's gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl Catches Up With Uzodinma Iweala | 11/29/2005 | See Source »

CHALLENGES: Right off the bat, the screenwriters had to commit sacrilege by tinkering with a beloved children's classic. They also had to wrestle with a strongly Christian plot that flirts with Sunday-school didacticism and had to keep kids interested despite a noticeable lack of exploding spaceships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books Vs. Movies | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

...case was to say that a simple doctrine of “substantial noninfringing use” was not sufficient. If, as the music industry argued, a peer-to-peer network was encouraging (or, in the language of the decision, “inducing”) its users to commit copyright infringement, the Court held that the network could be held liable for the infringement.What exactly ‘inducing’ means is not at all clear, and this has been the center of a great deal of controversy since the decision was handed down. Still, at the very...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: bye2hub | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

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