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...right away that it was something that should be read by as many people as possible,” Kincaid said in her introduction to the reading yesterday. “Beasts of No Nation” was published this year by HarperCollins, and Iweala has toured the U.S., England, and Canada to promote it. In an interview, he said that he may be visiting other European countries when translations of the novel are published. Both The New York Times and the Washington Post have profiled Iweala as a rising young writer. But, when he used the phrase...
...Ebonie-Shay D. Hazle ’06, who is also a Crimson editor. Choreographed last year, this piece, in addition to the fifth number, “Here is Now,” by Brenda Divelbliss, the Harvard Dance Program artistic associate, will be performed at the New England Regional of the American College Dance Festival next February at Boston University.Hazle’s piece is particularly unique because it will be accompanied live by Bong Inh Koh ’08, one of the students hand-picked by Yo-Yo Ma to perform with...
...Europe take in confronting terrorism and the lessons that can be gleaned from both. “We have a lot to learn from Europe,” said Sennott, who is a Fellow this year at the Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. He noted that England, which has a long history of imperialism, understands the dangers inherent in that power better than America. “But Europe,” Sennott added, “also has a lot to learn from us.” In front of a 40-person audience, Sennott compared...
...United States Supreme Court has begun hearing arguments in yet another abortion case, Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. At question is a New Hampshire law which requires minors to notify their parents and wait 48 hours before having an abortion. The law does not provide an exception for the health of the mother, but instead an exception that allows a woman to have an abortion only if her life is at risk. The lack of an exception regarding the health of the mother is simply unacceptable, and unnecessarily puts young women in danger. Planned Parenthood is right...
DIED. CONSTANCE CUMMINGS, 95, smart, sensitive 1930s movie actress turned grande dame of the London and New York stage; in Oxfordshire, England. Although she made her international reputation with film comedies--like Movie Crazy, in which she played a quirky ingenue, and Blithe Spirit, David Lean's take on Noel Coward's play--Cummings became known for such emotionally compelling roles as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; frail matriarch Mary Tyrone, opposite Laurence Olivier, in the 1971 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, both in London; and onetime...