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...Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet. West, the first of his plays to infiltrate the West End, can be seen as a new West Side Story. Mike (Rory Edwards), leader of a quintet of Hackney toughs, challenges a rival gang boss to one-on-one combat and just barely lives to tell the tale. Berkoffs twist: Mike and every other character speak in iambic pentameter. Will the rival boss kick Mike in the crown? "Balls! Were he Al Capone I'd pluck...
...University of Pennsylvania thousands of students participated in the month-long Towards Prevention of Nuclear War conference last April. The conference was organized by University President Sheldon Hackney's office...
...Preprofessionalism has been Penn's personality for a long time--excellent preprofessional preparation," explains university president Sheldon Hackney, adding that the challenge now is to combine that with a strong liberal arts education. "The opportunity to do that is better here than anywhere else," Hackney says, "because we have built-in mechanisms for student-faculty interaction across the schools and across disciplinary barriers...
...Ideally, we can have the best of both worlds, says Hackney. "We can be a large, diverse, exciting university with a strong sense of community and support, with each member feeling that he belongs," he added...
Simensksy said that each episode features as well-known Penn personality in a cameo appearance. In the premier, Penn President Sheldon Hackney played a hot dog vendor...