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...Last night's Undergraduate Council debate may have lacked substance, but that was certainly made up for with style. From audience member Andrew L. Perito's '01 coral button-down to the supporters of Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and John A. Burton '01 who wore banana-yellow bandanas, oh what a runway last night's debate...
...Last night's debate was sponsored and run by the Institute of Politics...
...would like to thank Marc J. Ambinder for his article in The Crimson (Opinion, Dec. 6) about the fallen firefighters in Worcester. As a firefighter myself, it is very hard to witness such a tragedy unfold as we did last Friday night. It is an unspeakable tragedy to lose one firefighter, let alone six as we did Friday, or 14 as we did five years ago on Storm King Mountain in Colorado...
...know that each fire we roll to has the potential of being the last, and we take care not to treat any as "normal." Firefighters are not action movie heroes, throwing ourselves indiscriminately into walls of advancing flame. We respect each fire, know its force and know when it is time to retreat. Occasionally we miscalculate, a flaw of our human nature, and that sometimes means fire will claim a victim. When we lose brothers to fire, we all realize that any one of us could have fallen just as easily, and then we renew our vows to fight fire...
...Machinal's flirtation with experimental theater achieves its completion in the last scene. The costuming is radical; both Parris and Agresta, executioners, are dressed in metallic-punk-dominatrix suits, and Gunn, the priest, wears a silver robe. The sense that all dialogue is a voice-over creates the impression that the actors are merely odd configurations of marionettes. In this scene, people have fully transformed into machines. Helen's appeals for mercy seem to be almost rays of light bouncing off the darkened stage, for she is the only lit figure. Suddenly, strobe lights destroy the darkness, and the execution...