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...think we were primed for something more important than celebration, as we crowded Harvard Yard. The drunken guy inviting us to go break shit articulated a collective, inchoate desire for change—for some sort of change. Students cannot gather in the street, flanked by police in riot gear, without summoning up ghosts of Paris in ’68, of Tiananmen Square, of Kent State. And compared with these ghosts, we seemed awfully callow. We are capable of gathering, of shouting slogans, of stopping traffic. Shouldn’t we do so to some...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: The Rough Streets of Cambridge | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...based on the first preview, Lane's fabulously manic, archly knowing interpretation is intact.) After his stint, Lane will leave to shoot the movie version of The Producers. The cast has already felt the difference. Says leading lady Leigh Zimmerman, "We've all been ready to move up a gear for a couple of weeks but couldn't. Now with the fire Nathan brings to the role, at last we can." So far, no replacement candidates have materialized to play Max after Lane moves on. British actor Henry Goodman, who replaced Lane in New York City before being sacked after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Comedy of Errors | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...such a booming business? For starters, the company promoted the right sports and launched a series of inspired ad campaigns. But the story of how Nike cracked the China code has as much to do with the rise of China's new middle class, which is hungry for Western gear and individualism, and Nike's ability to tap into that hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: How Nike Figured Out China | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...Boston roots and Morris’s former enrollment in Harvard Summer School were subsequently revealed, and they were sold. Through the standard approval process for campus shows, Arthur was able to rent out Winthrop’s JCR for two weeks to kick the production into gear...

Author: By Jessica A. Berger and Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Homecoming of Matt & Ben | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

...hour later, confetti still in our hair, we descended into the Square’s bowels blocks away—several closer stations had been blocked off to control the anticipated crowd of more than one million—passed a cadre of officers in riot gear, and emerged on the platform at the rear of the train...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Virgin No More | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

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