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Alexander Bevilacqua ’07, a history concentrator in Leverett House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. He is doing academic research in Paris and Berlin, but wedding bells drew him to England last week...
Since Wales was overtaken by England over 700 years ago, the language has been steadily losing ground. By the 60s, it was spoken only by the old people, and seemed destined for the history books. However, the language experienced a dramatic turnaround during the Welsh version of the hippie era, which wasn’t about flower-power but Cymraeg (the Welsh word for Welsh) revival. The Welsh tongue went from nearly-dead to in-vogue–Welsh is the new black...
...DIED. CHRISTOPHER FRY, 97, wry British playwright of the 1940s and '50s who, along with T.S. Eliot, was responsible for a brief, mid-century revival of verse drama; in Chichester, England. His plays?most notably The Lady's Not for Burning, a comedy about a suspected witch and an ex-soldier?created roles for the era's greatest actors, including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Richard Burton. Fry reached his biggest audience, however, as a script doctor who did a rewrite for the epic 1959 film...
...America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process?you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom to the rest of the world? Ramji Abinashi Amersham, England...
...America wipes its feet on the rest of the world. Clear violations of all norms and conventions, holding people without judicial process - you name it, the U.S. has done it. What right do Americans have to preach liberty and freedom to the rest of the world? Ramji Abinashi Amersham, England The story on the interrogation log of Detainee 063 was one of the most sickening reports that I have ever read. While I give a thumbs-up to the authors, I give a thumbs-down to the Bush Administration for the deplorable stain that is spreading further on what...