Word: knifings
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...deciding when preemption is right or wrong is tricky business and creating a universal formula is nearly impossible—at least that’s what Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz argues in his latest book, “Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways...
Rather than being a groundbreaking first work on the topic, Dershowitz settles for just the “first work” part, serving up a dulled analysis of what might have been a sharper knife...
...Lowell House Dining Hall.Set in mid-eighteenth century Soho, London, the opera nonetheless captures the moral ambiguity and social insecurity of Weimar Republic-era Germany, the time period in which it was written. The story follows the extremely likable anti-hero Macheath (Brian Ballard), known as Mack the Knife, as he robs, cheats and womanizes his way into our hearts. His life intersects those of the miserly Mr. and Mrs. Peachum (Nathan Troup and Tracy Reynolds) the resentful prostitute Jenny Diver (Karoun A. Demirjian ’03), and the corrupt cop Tiger Brown (Nicholas N. Commins...
...instance, this meant equating parts of their own body or that of another actor with either meat or mere potatoes in sexual jokes; in another, it meant actor Olivia E. Jampol ’09 stabbing actor Sean P. Bala ’09 with a steak knife, as if he really were a steak. This scene’s musical numbers were enhanced by dramatic lighting by Eleanor M. Campisano ’08 and delightful choreographic parodies by Sachiko A. Ezura ’08.Set Designer B. Britt Caputo ’08, who is a Crimson editor...
...More troubling events are almost certain in the months ahead. The Canadian deployment is the knife edge of an international strategy to shift the management of "stabilization" operations in southern Afghanistan from U.S. forces to the nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)--the transition is expected to be completed this summer--and Taliban rebels are already probing for weak spots in coalition defenses. "The insurgents are learning as they go," says Christian Willach, manager of the Afghanistan ngo Safety Organization. "In the coming months everyone is going to have a harder time...