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Last Wednesday marked a strange assemblage of anniversaries: the 145th of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the 98th of the Titanic’s iceberg collision, and the 71st of John Steinbeck’s magnum opus, “Grapes of Wrath.” Among these decaying men and doomed machines stood Simone de Beauvoir, her death one year shy of its quarter-century mark. Although Lincoln gave us “four score and forty years,” the Titanic spawned an eponymous Hollywood blockbuster, and Steinbeck became the bane of freshman reading lists, Beauvoir?...
Packed into a darkened room in John Harvard’s Brewery sat two opposing households: the Montagues and the Capulets. Their ancient grudge, having lain dormant for a whole year, is about to break to new mutiny in the yearly celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday. The Actors’ Shakespeare Project, the Orfeo Group, the American Repertory Theater, the Central Square Theatre, the Cambridge Arts Council, multiple other Cambridge-based drama groups, and the Harvard Square Business Association have joined together for the last three years to commemorate the birth of the prolific English playwright. Thus...
...Evening with Champions was founded in 1970 by John M. Petkevich ’71, who would later become a national figure skating champion. Upon seeing the bedridden patients in the children’s cancer ward at Harvard affiliate Children’s Hospital Boston, Petkevich was inspired to make a difference...
...much of what we see on TV is deliberately designed to deceive, or exaggerate, or promote someone’s agenda, and the MythBusters is the complete opposite,” said audience member John S. Dwyer, who added that he found Savage and Hyneman “extremely funny...
...British soldiers can certainly be overconfident. But John Nagl, president of the Center for a New American Security, believes the real roots of British humiliations in Iraq lie in London. "If the politicians back home are not completely committed to this thing, if they have not leveled with the people on the likely costs of the war, then you're putting an unsupportable burden on the army in the field in a counterinsurgency campaign," says Nagl. "And so as you look at explanations as to why the British army performed better in Malaya than Iraq, one of the questions...