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...STOPPARD'S ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE Dead is all about reversing expectations. Stoppard brings the two most minor characters from Hamlet to the forefront of his play and explores the comedic--and occasionally existential--results of looking at life from their point of view. The current production at the Leverett Old Library seeks to place the audience in that very same position: in the empty room that constitutes the show's set, the two characters seem to be speaking not only to each other, but to an audience who can sympathize with their confused plight. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are always...
When Folkman proposed the idea that tumor growth depends on a close presence of blood vessels in 1971, few medical experts took him seriously. Now, Folkman's research is on the forefront of establishing effective anti-cancer drugs...
...forefront of educational efforts, especially for minority and inner-city students--encouraging them to get training and education in science and math," Counter said. "He is the spokesperson for a lot of scientific organizations that have these same goals...
...cannot imagine a multicultural center that did not have the Foundation at the forefront. Indeed, the Foundation contributes a great deal toward the central mission of a multicultural student center--the bringing together and sharing of diverse cultures and ethnicities--and as such the multicultural center and the Foundation are not counter to each other...
...usual leads to a horrific, numbing climax as absent-minded doctors send adolescents to war and tanks roll down hilly roads too beautiful for bloodshed. Based on the Leo Tolstoy short story, "Caucasian Captive," "Prisoner of the Mountains" brings the people, not the politics, of war to the dramatic forefront, capturing the paralysis and pain felt by families caught in the middle...