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Novelist Susan Sontag, Duke University President-designate Nannerl O. Keohane and culinary giant Julia M. Child are among 14 scholars, artists and educators who will receive honorary degrees at Commencement today...
Keohane is currently the president of Wellesley College, where she also teaches political science. She will become the eighth president of Duke University on July 1. She is the author of Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightment (1980) and co-editor of Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology...
...Duke, 1,500 students sat peacefully in rows on the main campus quad until trustees agreed to raise hourly wages for non-academic employees from...
Concubine throbs with the seductive power art has over life. And because this is a movie about the glory and competitiveness of performance, it is appropriate that Cheung, as the tormented homosexual, and Gong, as his bitter rival, should duke it out for the title of most beautiful star on the Asian screen. Cheung wins, because this is his story, and he is equal to the doomed sensitivity of the role. Thanks in no small part to his presence, and performance, Concubine has the sweep and pang of a novel that keeps you reading till dawn, then lives in your...
Also good are Doug Miller as the Duke and Yoseph Choi as the Grand Inquisitor. Miller has one of the strangest accents in a show full of pseudo-Brits but he prances about the stage in the best tradition of the "little man who sings the patter song," as Anna Russell put it. If he is less strong in the second act, his introductory song, "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," in the first is one of the best moments of the show. Blessedly, he understands the importance of enunciation. Choi plays the Inquisitor as a little more of a lech...