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...many areas where the council’s expertise can complement the administration’s money. It would be a mistake for the University administration to turn Springfest into nothing more than a community relations photo-op. There are plenty of other events where the University can craft a flattering image of itself. Springfest—and the planning behind it—is an opportunity for Summers to show how he can connect with the undergraduate community, not by grabbing center stage, but by cooperating with the council...
Mankiw succeeds Hubbard, who helped craft the $695 billion tax-cut plan that the president proposed last month—and who steps down as Bush’s administration attempts to convince Congress to approve the stimulus package...
...speech.” The statue was clearly created for its shock value and not to appeal to our artistic sensibilities. It relied on its prominent location in Tercentenary Theater to achieve this purpose. If the “artists” were so intent simply to practice their craft and exercise free speech, they could have built this sculpture in one of their own backyards where their mothers, grandmothers and sisters could see it. Maybe they could have even charged admission to others who wanted to view the masterpiece. Either way, at least this community would have been spared...
...Growing up Cockney, in the Rotherhithe section of London, taught him to observe life in the raw: to retain those images and that accent, which, along with the spectacles, became his trademark. Doing rep gave him lessons in the star's gift of getting noticed, and the actor's craft of hiding in plain sight. "In rep it's a different play each week," he says. "You'd be the butler one week, the lord the next, the Cockney handyman the week after. And in some of the companies, the mistress of the house...
Talented costume designers Katherine S. Dain ’04 and Caroline T. Koo ’04 miss no details, using a seemingly boundless imagination to craft elaborate frocks and extravagant dresses that suit each of their characters, in all senses. Jealous stepsisters Clorinda and Tisbe wear gaudy gowns appropriate to their rather foul—if extremely entertaining—temperaments, while Cinderella (or Angelina, as Rossini dubbed her) emerges radiant from her tattered rags in a sparkling white wedding gown sans veil...