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Ryan R. Thoreson ’07, who will study social anthropology at Oxford next year, recounted the experience of an older Harvard friend, who, after advancing to the Rhodes’ interview round, did not win the fellowship: “She said that I should apply for fellowships simply for the opportunity to write a personal statement, which forces you to figure out what you want to do, something you don’t get an opportunity to do very often at Harvard. I think I would have been glad if I had applied regardless of the outcome...
...Magor takes off to scour the room in search of beer, he is constantly stopped by fellow dissidents. Then, he drags four of his gray yet hairy buddies - one of them a former politician - on stage to sing an exile blues song, supposed to have been performed by a friend who is at home with fever. "What a hypochondriac! I told her, real artists die on stage...
...Sara and her boyfriend first bond over the death of their fathers. However, all is not drenched in the drama and pain of the past: Esma and Sara rough-tumble in their pajamas, Sara throws her babysitter’s purse out the window, and Esma and her friend Sabina giggle like the schoolgirls they are. The human element here is more important than the didactic war message. Mirjana Karanovic’s acting as Esma is poignant in its clear-eyed honesty and, again, simplicity. A veteran from popular Bosnian director Emir Kusturica’s films...
...Arts administrators and planning fundraising events for the company. The company first began its life in 1995 after Speedie and Saunders attended a production of “The Tempest” at the American Repertory Theatre. “I walked out of that and spoke to a friend of mine in the class and said, ‘Of all the societies and clubs in music and theater at Harvard, why isn’t there a dedicated Shakespeare company?’” recalls Speedie. Within a year of its formation, the company achieved real...
...touching—that is, when one is not distracted by hints of a foreign accent and skin color that calls to mind a foreign exchange student amongst his freckle-faced, whitebread siblings. Julianne Nicholson, playing the only girl of the four and her mother’s best friend, refuses to leave the house even for a moment and is constantly doling out advice from self-help books such as “How to Die”. The third child, played by Tom Cavanach, is an illness-repulsed workaholic, who learns the importance of slowing down throughout...