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...were not aware of the list of al Qaeda’s specific demands. This list was made public several years before the Sept. 11 attacks, without response from any Western power. Though never directly sympathetic to the terrorists, the filmmakers constantly offer a perspective that includes the political context that led to the attacks...

Author: By Julia E. Twarog, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 9/11 prompts faux documentary | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

...citizens?  In this gritty new adaptation of a classic story of a young woman who must follow her own heart and defy the law of the land, the timeless themes and uneasy questions of loyalty, patriotism and personal morality are illuminated afresh in a vivid contemporary context. Tickets $28. Oct. 1 and 2 at 8 p.m. Oct. 3 at 3 p.m.  Nora Theatre Company at Boston Playwrights’ Theater, 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAPPENING | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

...biography’s twelve chapters, arranged in roughly chronological order, portray Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family and building a career in the competitive world of Elizabethan theater—all to shed light on the historical context linked to the playwright’s masterpieces...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Professor Pens Shakespeare’s Life | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

...this context that Tribe’s latest admission strikes us as especially worrisome. Unlike Goodwin, Tribe has few excuses on which to fall back. As Tribe pointed out, Goodwin may have been guilty of inadvertently lifting language from another text, but she had at least cited her source among some 3,500 footnotes. Tribe’s 1985 book, on the other hand, contains no footnotes or endnotes on account of a desire to make the book more “accessible” to the general public. To be sure, the book does reference Abraham?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Where is the Academy? | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

...goal is to be in the upper tier of all the Ivy League teams in the context of special teams,” Murphy said. “Only time will tell, but I feel good about our special teams...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Special Teams Look To Live Up to Their Name | 9/17/2004 | See Source »

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