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...According to the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC) that runs through April 13, the latter is very much the answer. But in its efforts to constantly amuse its audience, the production bypasses many of the more serious and deep elements of the play, creating an entertaining but somewhat hollow experience. The story of Prospero (Alvin Epstein), the deposed Duke of Milan who now inhabits a mysterious island, his daughter Miranda (Mara Sidmore), and his servants Ariel (Marianna Bassham) and Calaban (Benjamin Evett) is one of Shakespeare?...
...College’s decision earlier this month to suspend transfer admission was hard news for the 1,308 students who had already applied to make the switch to Harvard next year. But for the students of Deep Springs College, a selective two-year institution situated in the High Sierra Desert, the new policy was uniquely significant...
...Founded in 1917 by electrical pioneer Lucien L. Nunn, the small college on the Nevada-California border is known for giving students an active role in hiring their own professors, required ranch work, and sending what one Deep Springs alum called “a consistent flow” of its graduates to Harvard...
...They have very few problems with transferring or being admitted [to Harvard],” then-Deep Springs President F. Ross Petersen wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson in 2006. “Their biggest problem after transferring is trying to get involved and not become a number...
...enacted. Diminishing the urgency, conservationists say, is the fact that the scarlet ibis is not an endangered species; it's just endangered on the island of Trinidad. When the Venezuelan colony abandons Trinidad, a smaller flock resident on the island, which needs the interlopers to keep their gene pool deep, will wither, says Molly Gaskin, president of the Point-a-Pierre wild fowl trust where she oversees a breeding and reintroduction program for scarlet ibis. "We don't have an activism-oriented population; we'll need a catastrophe before that happens," Gaskin said. Oil and gas expansion, she said...