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...complete reading of the entire poem, the Milton marathon included a re-enactment of the climactic moment when Adam, played by Benjamin M. Woodring, who is in his first year of the English PhD program, and Eve, played by Danielle C. Kijewski ’11, eat the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Adorned with loincloths and fig-leaves, they made resounding crunches from apples for added emphasis. Over the course of the night, the nearly two dozen participants whittled down to the eight remaining iron-willed members. These poetic marathoners, after journeying...
Like the meerkats, Manor is an odd beast. The crew is forbidden to intervene, and the producers don't sugarcoat the animals' less cuddly habits (infidelity, abandonment of young, occasional cannibalism). But the meerkats are named and given human traits ("courageous," "caring," "bully[ing]"), and their antics and tragedies take place over a sound track. Manor is both brutal and melodramatic and thus more devastating than most documentary or scripted drama. Imagine Brothers and Sisters if every once in a while, Sally Field, Rob Lowe or someone else got eaten by a goshawk...
It’s a tale as old as time: two households, both alike in dignity. From “Romeo and Juliet” to “West Side Story,” forbidden love has been a staple in the theater. But how often does Harvard hear that tale told in Spanish?In a break with tradition, the newly formed student group “Harvard College TEATRO!” debuted a production “Bodas de Sangre” by Federico García Lorca in the original Spanish in the Agassiz Theatre last...
...much of Asia, Vietnam's Confucian-based society prizes male heirs to carry on the family name and care for parents in their old age. And like China, Vietnam has a history of strict population control. Until recently, couples were forbidden to have more than two children, and families went to great lengths to ensure that at least one was a son - including aborting girl babies, especially if they already had one daughter. Vietnamese online forums carry threads devoted to how to ensure conceiving a boy - everything from special diet to especially rigorous sex to pre-intercourse douching with...
...asked to name who they supported in the 2004 presidential election. The researchers found that supporters of President Bush were one-third less likely than supporters of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to know that interrogation methods depriving prisoners of sleep, food, or water or employing threats are forbidden under the Geneva Conventions. Those who voted for Bush were also less likely to know when they would be required to disobey an unethical order from a superior. Legislative Director of the Harvard College Democrats Jarret A. Zafran ’09 said this difference could be attributed to ideology...