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...people are so frustrated with a two-party system, why has there been so little success in coming up with another real contender? -Erika Groff, Troy, N.Y. Because we don't have a two-party system. We have a one-party system. Both parties endorse the welfare state and corporatism. Both parties support interventionism overseas. But they also write all the campaign laws. So they have made it virtually impossible to break into the monopoly. If I had run on a third-party ticket I wouldn't have been in the debates...
...actors crawl out of the rubble. Give Jonathan Groff (a major new cutie) a hand for turning the Woodstock weekend's chief promoter, Michael Lang, into a figure so charismatic, and so central to the actual concert, that viewers will think the movie should have been about him. Liev Schreiber also earns credit for not being buried under the stereotype of a muscular cross-dresser who serves as Elliot's security chief. The vaunted Broadway actor shows something we hadn't seen before: nice legs...
...creative team for the revival has managed the difficult task of recapturing the '60s spirit without resorting to irony or camp. Director Diane Paulus says her young cast (most of them--including Jonathan Groff, a Tony nominee for Spring Awakening, and Will Swenson--are better singers than the originals) has gained a new appreciation of those distant counterculture years. "I think people are desperately longing to reconnect," she says, "to a time when you as a citizen felt like you could make a change in your country." Oskar Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director and the guiding spirit behind...
...range of schools that included Boston College and Northeastern. The meet was not scored by team. In one of the most successful areas for Harvard on the weekend, the Crimson sprinters blew past all other runners in the women’s side of the meet. Senior Stevie de Groff won both the 100 meter and 200 meter dashes, with freshman Favia Merritt following her up in the former and Shannon Flahive in the latter. The third position in each distance was also a Crimson runner—sophomore Chidimma Dalu was .57 seconds behind de Groff?...
Senior Eleanor Thompson registered a sixth-place finish in the 60-meter high hurdles by reaching the line in 8.96 seconds. Similarly, junior Stevie De Groff also grabbed one point for the Harvard by finishing in sixth in the 60-meter dash. She completed the sprint in 7.85 to earn the point...