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There's no reason to celebrate the demise of the Marlboro Man. He's simply living abroad. I've just returned from Guatemala, where an artful TV ad begins with a nighttime storm, stampeding cattle, restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same...
...success way-off-Broadway that has just moved to larger quarters--playwright and director Moises Kaufman has dramatized that fall with the sort of rapier stylization that Wilde himself would have admired. Nine actors facing the audience in two rows--a kind of oratorio at the Old Bailey--re-enact the legal proceedings and comment on them at the same time, using excerpts from newspaper accounts, biographical works and the memoirs of Wilde and others. It's a dazzling coup de theatre, at once compelling history and chilling human drama...
...response to the memos was woefully inadequate," said KSG student Myrna Perez. "He was able to get off relatively easy. He didn't have to commit to any difficult or hard-to-enact changes...
...have seen how popular the net kiosks around campus have been. Why not have similar stations on street corners and at supermarkets? Every American who wants one should be assigned a lifetime e-mail address. Take steps to promote the installation of fiber optic cable nationwide or enact a tax break for personal computer purchases...
...Core classes across the board, because no one learns "methods and approaches to knowledge" in more than one or two of their Core requirements. And if the Faculty really gets carried away, be bold! Admit that Harvard is not providing its students with a broad liberal education, and enact a "Great Books" curriculum. That way, at least we'll read Dante, Emily Dickinson, and Isaac Newton before we graduate...