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...believes is her attacker. Set in 1993 in a South American country resembling Chile—which Dorfman fled in 1973 after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup—”Death and the Maiden” begins with Paulina Escobar (Carla M. Borras ’05) listening to the news that her husband Gerardo (Rupak Bhattacharya ’05) has been appointed head of a committee to investigate crimes against humanity perpetrated during the reign of the recently deposed dictator...
...believes is her attacker. Set in 1993 in a South American country resembling Chile—which Dorfman fled in 1973 after Augusto Pinochet came to power in a bloody coup—”Death and the Maiden” begins with Paulina Escobar (Carla M. Borras ’05) listening to the news that her husband Gerardo (Rupak Bhattacharya ’05) has been appointed head of a committee to investigate crimes against humanity perpetrated during the reign of the recently deposed dictator...
...accuse Dr. Roberto Miranda of raping Paulina Escobar on 14 separate occasions, each time playing Death and the Maiden,” Paulina begins her mock trial of the doctor. He denies involvement in her rape, while she claims that, though blindfolded while being tortured, she recognizes Miranda by his voice. Screaming, obscenities and tears soon follow as the audience tries to assess whether the doctor is guilty...
Santos arrived at Harvard in 1991 shortly after being kidnapped and held for eight months by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Santos, who had been working as a journalist for Colombia’s largest newspaper, El Tiempo, studied at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. During that same year, Uribe came to Cambridge to study business administration at the Extension School. The two met and became acquainted at dinners for Colombian students during the six months that their stays overlapped...
...world. Why? Because we can take it. Americans are blessed to have relatively compassionate, educated and reasonable people in society. Many countries are not afforded this luxury. If you play soccer for Colombia and cost your team a game with an own goal, you get shot (Andres Escobar, anyone?). In the United States, you get a day of disappointment, followed by a 2002 Subaru Outback from Rosie O’Donnell as a sympathy gift...