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...women are just as unhappy as the men, when they have a sex strike. The idea is that whoever has the willpower wins.”By continuing to put on annual productions of classical theatre, the Classical Club hopes that the Harvard community will become more familiar with ancient Greek plays.“The first impression is always that Harvard doesn’t put on classical plays that often, like ancient Greek drama. Ancient Greek drama is the starting point of theater, but we don’t put it on often,” Koven-Matasy...
...Malcolm says. Together with two other individuals with Down Syndrome, Katharine and Graham will form a panel to discuss what life with the disorder is like. The Down Syndrome Awareness Seminar and Concert is intended as both an educational and uplifting event. “For people who are familiar with Down Syndrome, and for people who are completely unfamiliar,” Malcolm says, “[the concert] will open their eyes to people who are doing well and have really rich lives...
...Bentley!” These bookends provide memorable first and last impressions, as they encapsulate the MTV-ready middle portion of the album.Regardless, very little about “Deeper than Rap” conveys any sense of lyrical or compositional originality. From the recycled analogies and familiar “hip-pop” melodies to the clichéd Scarface-esque album cover, “Deeper than Rap” does not stand out. Ross does little more than reference the themes of ascent, extravagance, and egocentric introspection that are ordinary in mainstream hip-hop today. While...
Amid the politically charged debate over the techniques, Soufan's criticism carries special weight because it comes from someone intimately familiar with the little-understood art of extracting information from hard-as-nails jihadists. As a supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005 - and one of the FBI's few Arabic speakers - Soufan was involved in a string of crucial investigations and interrogations, from the Millennium Bombing plot in Jordan to the U.S.S. Cole bombing in Yemen and a number of Gitmo interrogations. His greatest success was the interrogation of Abu Jandal, bin Laden's former bodyguard. After the 9/11...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never gotten the critical respect accorded contemporaries such as Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or nuclear physics or Russian intellectuals. Ayckbourn's realm is more familiar: the domestic and romantic trials of modern middle-class Brits. Yet no one has probed more acutely, or with a finer balance of laughter and pain, the sad human comedy behind these tidy surfaces - the inability of people to connect, to see the casual cruelty they inflict on others, to come to terms with their failed illusions, to be happy...