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...group of characters that includes everything from mad scientists and senior citizens to government officials and secretaries to beer-guzzling down-home boys. Kellerman bypassed common casting in order to hand-pick his actors. John Keefe '01, used to performing in musicals, acted alongside Kellerman in Children of Eden earlier this year; Jonathan Steinberger '00 won recognition last spring for the shocking verisimilitude of his portrayal of a junkie in Buffalo; David Modigliani '01, an IGP veteran, has natural comedic gifts; and Catherine Gowl '02 was universally admired for the depth and expressivity of her role as Cecilia in Simpatico...
...conclusions may be drawn from this story, and both are correct. The fields of asphalt that ordinarily occupy the center of Paris may be called Elysian, but the name is simply a gloss, or an apology, applied to something that is nothing like Eden. Cities tend to create such places (find the tulips in New York City's Madison Square Garden) as a sort of nostalgic glance at the rural world they supplanted. If the farmers had not carted their bucolic protest to Paris on that day, the citizens there, like people in cities everywhere else, would have continued...
...destroy or even diminish biodiversity and thus the creation? Look more closely at nature, they say; every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived for thousands to millions of years. It is part of the world--part of Eden if you prefer--in which our own species arose...
Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Judith's defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
...Pitches are a lot more than a singing group," said Eden Riegel '02, the group's president. "Even though the group changes every year, the spirit of the group lives...