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...theater, and this play by Irish dramatist Brian Friel is essentially four of them, delivered by three different characters who never interact onstage: an itinerant faith healer (who, being the title character, gets to talk twice), his wife and his manager. The actors ? Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid ? are wonderful, but this is one very long slog, with whatever dramatic momentum is generated dissipated by a climax of rather annoying obliqueness. This is the sort of self-conscious showcase for ?writing? and ?acting? that separates critics from ordinary theatergoers. In this case, I'm with the folks trying...
...Ohiomoba said. “It’s an opportunity to make a significant contribution to a field, and I think the Hoopes Prize realizes this doesn’t necessarily correlate to grades.”Of the Class of 2006 the winners from Adams House are Ian K.L. Goh, Matthew Guarnieri, Julian E. Kolev, and Philip W. Kreycik, from Cabot House Sarah L. Paiji, and from Currier House James Sawalla Guseh II, Steve Y. Lee, Pablo M. Ros, Gregory J. Valiant, and Danny F. Yagan.Dunster House winners are William P. Deringer, Sarah E. Fawcett, Mary J. James...
...have to align yourself not just with the gun and the target but with your surroundings: light must be taken into account (people tend to aim lower in dim light), temperature (on a hot day the bullet flies faster and higher), and wind. "Three minutes," says Ian, an Army weapons instructor turned lawyer. He means that to counter today's stiff easterly, he'll move his horizontal sight three-60ths of a degree to the left. Shooting is all about precision, he says. And consistency. And tenacity, says David, an engineer who won a U.S. sniper-rifle championship last year...
...than not." David regrets the passing of an Australia that, in time of war, could draw on a huge pool of citizen marksmen. "We lost that after Vietnam," he says. With it went not just skills but a cast of mind. "Given the choice," says Ian, "I would always employ a shooter over a non-shooter. A good shooter is responsible, he's careful. He thinks about what he's doing, and when it's over he thinks about how to do it better." Says Alan, a teacher: "The art on the range, on the job, in life...
...percent since the 1992-1993 academic year. Co-sponsored by Massachusetts Institute for New Commonwealth (MassINC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the study also noted that families are paying more for public colleges, from 18% of their income in 1992-1993 to 21 percent in 2003-2004. Ian A. Bowles ’87, President and CEO of MassINC, says that his company decided to sponsor this study because MassINC’s focus is on the “challenges the average Massachusetts family faces in terms of trying to live the American dream?...