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Personal profiles of administrators, faculty and alumni fill its pages, as well as little-known facts about Harvard to delight even the most diehard trivia buffs...
...Liaisons Dangereuses is essentially a soap opera set in late eighteenth-century France: scheming aristocrats with too much time on their hands manipulate their friends and lovers in order to further their agendas of pleasure and revenge. "Liaisons" could easily be nothing more than a frothy, cynical delight, but there is some very deft social commentary at the heart of Christopher Hampton's play. The new production by director Adriana Abdenur '97, which continues this weekend at Agassiz Theater, captures the play's thematic complexity and scathing...
Maine is still mostly rural, and its people--from the potato farmers of Aroostook County to the lobstermen of the choppy Atlantic--retain a well-developed delight in the American gift of independence. Once the barometer of the country--"As Maine goes, so goes the nation"--the Pine Tree State has become a bit of a political aberration: there are more minor-party or unaffiliated voters there than either registered Republicans or Democrats. In 1992 a third of Maine's voters opted for third-party presidential candidate Ross Perot, and in 1994 each of its congressional districts switched parties...
...only exhibition game, against the Polish National team, Harvard scored a solid 3-0 victory and to the delight of the Harvard coaches, many freshmen contributed...
...those in the Washington know, This Town is a funny, poignant commentary on the sorry state of affairs in the press-rooms of our nation's capital. The press will nervously chuckle in self-conscious amusement and politicos will roar with delight. But the Washington outsider who witnesses the absurdity without getting the jokes will best understand This Town as an implicit warning about the corrosive effects of scandal-driven, self-promoting journalism on democratic government...