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...audience, too, learns to stop asking who Adam really is, and whether he should be appreciated or vilified. It is easy to find Adam offensive, even morally repugnant. But the message of About Adam is that we will be much happier if instead, we find Adam empowering. Irish playwright Gerard Stembridge wrote and directed About Adam with the goal of portraying "today's Dublin." By bending the rules of the traditional romantic comedy and pushing the standards of what makes a happy romantic relationship, Stembridge strays far away from the sexually repressed Irish society that is often depicted in films...
DIED. GILBERT TRIGANO, 80, vacation visionary who steered Club Med from beachfront commune to worldwide, multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...
...indeed for racists and xenophobes, as France's minister of research, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, triumphantly declared at a Monday press conference in Paris. He was celebrating the participation of French scientists in the Human Genome Project; other consortiums hailed from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Japan. P> At Celera Genomics, Craig Venter's private company in Rockville, Md., and at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the publicly funded Human Genome Project, release of the groundbreaking information yielded joy tempered by a teeth-baring spirit of competition. Since last June, when scientists unveiled a preliminary sketch...
...surely produce a system in which each vote is counted quickly and correctly. We should explore a uniform national system in which each state uses the same voting technology. We should be able to produce a system that will accurately reflect the wishes of every voter. GERARD J. GAGNON Leesburg...
Split Confusion, a new one-act play by Ned Colby '02, who is also a Crimson editor, begins as Georges Depardieu (cousin of French film star Gerard Depardieu) falls drunkenly asleep in an easy chair in his home. When he wakes up, his house does not belong to him anymore; it belongs instead to an anonymous unseen "Master" and his smug butler Jeremiah, who are throwing a dinner party for two couples, each of which is an alternate version of Georges and his girlfriend Chery. Georges 2 is a pimp whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia...