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...lapses into different states throughout the fairly long scene and muses on existence and the inherent ambivalence of man. While Hendryk is ranting, Laura is concerned with her own pain and pleads with her lifelong partner, who is seated in the audience. The vignette is well balanced in its content of serious contemplation and humorous antidotes. Froelich is towering as Hendryk; he radiates dysfunction. His character remains the most memorable of the entire production...
While Harry Potter’s content is aimed at kids, both the movie and the book hit home with Harvard students nostalgic for more carefree days. Eccleston said the movie encouraged “total fantasy,” avoiding banality with captivating special effects in the movie and gripping writing in the books...
...bump into anyone running around with a lightning scar for now—Harry Potter is only 11 years old in the movie and 15 in the books so far, so it will be a few years before Potter: The College Years is unleashed. Furthermore, students will have to content themselves with Folkore and Mythology 107b: “Witchcraft,” taught by Professor Stephen A. Mitchell, since Harvard will not be offering classes on Defense Against the Dark Arts. Unfortunately, midterms still take more work than waving a magic wand...
...showdown left the Iraq standoff mired in a stalemate: UN sanctions could only be lifted once Iraq was certified as having no nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, but such certification was impossible without an unimpeded inspection system. The stalemate worked for Saddam, who was content to allow European and Arab humanitarian concerns over the impact of sanctions to slowly build pressure on the U.S. Even when it tried to revise the embargo with "smart sanctions" designed to target Saddam's weapons programs but ease up on his civilian economy, the Bush administration found little enthusiasm among Saddam's Arab...
...always, the allure of articles like these lies not in their actual content but in the hint of a seed of an idea that could, with some reshaping, apply to your life and to mine. The idea: It would be nice to have a bag, a magic pouch really, that contained all of the little tools (yes, Deana, even glitter) I’d need to beat the end of term holiday blues. In said bag, I’d keep...