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...terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobbled up huge scoops of comfort news. Reading the newspaper this year was like reading that newspaper they hand out at Colonial Williamsburg, the one with headlines like SILVERSMITH THROWN IN GAOL FOR STEALING GOODIE SMITH'S PEANUT SOUPE RECIPE. O.K., I've never read that newspaper. But in the New York Times, which I occasionally read during boring meetings, I found out that the Dow slipped to 1997 levels and swept away all those confusing new companies I never bothered...
...ensemble nature of the play, most evident in its closing minutes. A throbbing heartbeat, a single spot and green sidelights illuminate Wilde as he grovels for mercy though he has done nothing wrong. The full cast, a phrase at a time, relates Wilde's The Balland of Reading Gaol, a story of one whose heart was pure but who suffered at the hands of a judging society, rendering the play profound and Wilde's larger-than-life image even stronger than before...
Come on, you know you love The Importance of Being Earnest. But do you know the other side of the story? Shorlty after the play's premier, Oscar Wilde underwent a series of trials that landed him in Reading Gaol as a sodomite. The trials made Wilde a criminal in his own day and a hero in ours, and they now form the basis of Moises Kaufman's ingenious play Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, in production in the Loeb Experimental Theater this weekend. The play received widespread acclaim Off Broadway, and its Harvard incarnation is sure...
...cursing in front of children is constitutional. A man charged with a foulmouthed fit near two youngsters after falling out of his canoe last summer can, if convicted, face a $100 fine and up to 90 days behind bars. Revolutionary War re-enactors in Massachusetts may also face serious gaol time. A state law banning assault weapons calls for the arrest of owners who don't have trigger guards on their firearm. It doesn't matter whether it is a deadly AK-47 or an old flintlock. How on earth did the National Rifle Association let that one get past...
...victory was an added comfort considering the team was coming off a frustrating Brown loss the day before in which the Crimson succumbed to a three-gaol third period by the Bears to lose...