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...most magical operettas, which parodies its period’s melodramatic theater and fascination with the supernatural and features professional bridesmaids, cursed baronets, and a picture gallery of ghosts. Agassiz Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12/10/8/6/4. (KAF)Ongoing EventsMagners Irish Film Festival. Through Nov. 21. As the largest festival of its kind in the U.S., this five-day experience features the best of contemporary Irish and Irish-related film and video. More than 30 features, shorts, and documentaries will be screened. See www.irishfilmfestival.com for screening times. Harvard Film Archive and Brattle Theater...
Perhaps feeling left out of Boston’s Irish-steeped culture, Harvard has brought a taste of it home to its conspicuously un-Irish campus with a little help from Magners Irish Cider...
...Earlier this year, Irish Brown accepted a job at Lehman Brothers, heading up the recruitment of experienced minority professionals. Her newly created position shows Wall Street is serious about beginning to tackle its lack of diversity, she says. "It's my opportunity to really implement change in an organization...
...Irish Brown has had a charmed career. Propelled by education-focused parents and an MBA from Columbia University, she moved smoothly from Wall Street to Washington to corporate finance. Though she succeeded as an investment banker specializing in high-yield capital markets, Irish Brown, whose four grandparents emigrated from the Caribbean, noticed few faces like hers in the workplace. On Wall Street, "diversity has been an issue for a long time not just for people of color but women as well," she says. "Being a woman of color, you notice it from both angles...
...when she took a job heading up business development at a minority-owned media company that she realized diversity in the workplace made a difference. Irish Brown, who was parenting her fiance's son, felt comfortable sharing her family situation with coworkers-comfortable enough even to ask to place the boy on her health plan. Extended families are a fact of life for more minority women than any other group, and "I felt it was something that was accepted there...