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Harvard director Gibbs was faced with the dilemma of wanting to cross cast while remaining true to the intentions of the scriptwriter when holding auditions for this fall's performance of Tiny Alice. "I wanted to cast the best actors--male or female. However, it became clear during auditions that gender cross casting would be disruptive to Albee's script...
When I was a freshman at Duke University, orientation consisted of posture tests in a drafty gym and an awkward mixer in the chapel parking lot. We received a reading list before our arrival that included such books as Black Rage and Living with Sex: The Student's Dilemma, but no one bothered to discuss them with us. Adrift in the temporary calm between Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the shootings at Kent State, we struggled to survive the transition from high school to college with as much grace as we could muster. Being a freshman...
...past in many ways personifies the abiding Polish dilemma born of geography and the hard knocks of history. Jaruzelski was 16 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and he recalls vividly how, on a clear September day 51 years ago, he and his family crossed into Lithuania as refugees. "I thought then that the heavens had fallen in on me," Jaruzelski recalls. "We were convinced that we would return home soon, that an English-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the Germans. It was not to happen...
...days as a dorm counselor while attending Harvard Law School. Souter told the committee of spending two hours advising a student's pregnant girlfriend who was considering a self-induced abortion. Souter did not say what he recommended, but indicated that he was fully aware of the human dilemma posed by such situations. "I remember that afternoon," he said...
...minor debates of the Persian Gulf crisis is whether President Bush should be spending the dog days of August taking his ease in Kennebunkport, Me. How have other key players in his Administration responded to the vacation or not-to-vacation dilemma...