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...complex that, in places, Ragozzino and director Andrew Boch '02 seem to struggle with understanding their own universe. One awkward example arises from the fact that both Chaffin and John Gravois play Matthew Circland at age 42, yet Gravois has been 42 for 21 years. This seems to contradict the text's own (generally acceptable) logic. The problem manifests itself as a result of the overlap in the existence of the two Matthews. While other Matthews appear (Jeff Klann, age 21 and Matthew Ciborowski, age 12), Chaffin's Matthew clashes less directly with them; they exist as memories (whether based...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Clocking Time | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...freedom of fiction, she said, allows the writer to contradict herself. Sontag said she often changes her mind about something she has written almost as soon as she has written it. Fiction, Sontag said, allows for her to be flexible in her writing...

Author: By Katherine M. Marino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Feminist Author Sontag Discusses New Novel About Immigrant Life | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

Neither. McCain is an old kind of Republican--to be precise, he is several old kinds of Republican rolled into one. He grabs various strands of Republicanism and doesn't worry when they contradict. He's a self-styled populist and a free-trading internationalist, a noisy reformer who keeps his hands off business and has corporate lobbyists raising money for him. He picks an assortment of G.O.P. role models and invites them to rumble inside his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Conservative Is McCain? | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...life from death in the verses of Donne. There is no conclusive period, no exclamation point separating the two juxtaposed thoughts; only a simple, smooth transitional comma. Of course, cancer is not the simplest or smoothest transition between life and death. Dr. Bearing's experience thus seems to completely contradict this idea, with one important exception. The last moments of her life are exceptionally tranquil. She dies in her sleep and some time elapses before her death is even noticed by the hospital staff. Then, as doctors and technicians hover over her lifeless body, she creeps away serenely, sheds...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Death Be Not Proud | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

According to Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, who co-chairs an advisory committee on free speech that has consistently rejected a more formal speech code, such regulations contradict the values that Harvard stands...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz and Alixandra E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Locus of Conduct: Why Brown Speaks Carefully and Why Harvard Speaks Freely | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

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