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...deceptively low-key one. The men are neither pigs nor saints, and the women are not perfect--Nico is having an affair, as much a betrayal of her friends, whom she hides it from, as of her husband. But the show makes them seem normal and grounded in contrast to a world of crazy, amoral rich people. (When Wendy refuses her young daughter a cell phone, another mom jadedly counsels, "Give her the phone, and be grateful it's not an abortion...
...gone over the edge of the academic cliff. And we ought to ask ourselves some serious questions about what, exactly, it is we’re doing here at Harvard the first place.It’s a false reduction to claim that Harvard students are simply lazy. By contrast, this is what makes the whole proposition so puzzling: Harvard students are, if anything, masochists, morbidly proud of the grisliest wounds incurred by their work. Stress doesn’t signify poor time-management skills but ambition, that most desirable of Harvard traits. The thousands of pages to be read...
...Still, the looming Berlusconi-Veltroni showdown does have the virtue of presenting a stark contrast between two very different politicians. The 71-year-old center-right leader hails from the industrial north, having made his mark as a real estate mogul and media entrepreneur, and becoming Italy's richest man. Berlusconi came into politics in 1994 billed as the ultimate outsider, scoffing at Rome's stuffy establishment and passing his downtime singing Neapolitan love ballads and frequenting his palatial villa in Sardinia's Porto Cervo. His refusal to resolve a gargantuan conflict of interest, as owner of Italy's three...
...course, the idea of “color-blind” casting is a controversial one in the larger theatrical world. August Wilson, the African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, argued that ethnic experiences are distinct and unique, and therefore cannot be successfully intertwined onstage. By contrast, Professor of English, Emeritus, theatre critic, and playwright Robert S. Brustein, contended that racial issues could be resolved onstage when he stated that “theater works best as a unifying rather than a segregating medium.” This discussion is missing at Harvard. The theater scene still does not involve...
...contrast, the Republican race is subdued. A former state party chairman, Hillard Selck, said he and other party leaders didn't even know, as of last week, who was handling front-runner John McCain's Missouri campaign. That might change with the recent endorsement of McCain by former Senator John Danforth...