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...they have stepped up the academic component of the dance program this year. “We definitely want CityStep to respond to the needs of Cambridge Public Schools children,” said CityStep Executive Director Russell L. Graney ’07. According to CityStep Executive Producer Geoffrey S. Johnston ’07, a heavier emphasis is now placed on teaching students dance terminology and applying that knowledge to journal entries and creative projects. One example he cited was a Thanksgiving-season project in which students choreographed a turkey dance using terms such...
...Smith trial, the defense will point to statements made by Army Col. Thomas Pappas, the senior military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, who has said he had approval from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a former commandant of Guantanamo who helped establish interrogation rules at Abu Ghraib. According to Pappas, Miller approved the use of dogs to extract information from detainees. In a statement given under oath on Jan. 25 after he was granted immunity from prosecution, Col. Pappas said he personally approved the use of dogs for a handful of prisoners. That approval, he said, came just days before...
...thefood oflove, but theater is the stuff of laughs in this comedy-drama about the romances and backstabbing at a Canadian Shakespeare company. The next production at the cash-strapped New Burbage Theatre Festival needs to be a hit, and over the objections of director Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross), it's Macbeth. As well as staging the difficult (and purportedly cursed) tragedy, Tennant must deal with a mutinous troupe, an incompetent festival manager (Mark McKinney of The Kids in the Hall) and the legacy of his dead, beloved predecessor, who haunts him like Banquo's ghost. Paying heed...
...Pentagon report inJuly 2005 found that al-Qahtani had been subjected to treatment that was--though not a violation of Defense Department policy-- cumulatively "abusive and degrading." It specifically recommended that the commandant of Guantnamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, be reprimanded for failing to adequately monitor the interrogation of a high-value detainee, believed to be al-Qahtani. But Miller's superior, Southern Command Commander General Bantz Craddock, decided against the reprimand. Congress last December passed a provision, sponsored by Senator John McCain of Arizona, that bars U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment...
Folk the world over have been journeying to sacred sites since the Bronze Age, and a new exhibition could tempt latter-day pilgrims to make the journey to Oxford, England. "Pilgrimage: The Sacred Journey" runs at the Ashmolean Museum until April 2. It includesa 15th century illuminated manuscript of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 13th century casket that once held the relics of Canterbury's martyr St. Thomas Becket, as well as rare objects such as a 5th century sandstone head of the Hindu god Shiva and a 13th century Buddhist plaque from Burma, above. Pilgrim mores...