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...audiences on a level Shakespeare cannot. While country boy Shakespeare set his plays in faraway lands of long ago, using language that was old-fashioned even then, Middleton, born and raised in London, wrote about urban life in a dialogue that's more familiar to the modern ear. A latter-day Scorsese, he walked on the dark side of the street, where you couldn't tell the good guys from the bad. "Part of the appeal of Shakespeare is that he takes you back to some imagined, glorious past," says Taylor. "But Middleton is overwhelmingly modern. He writes about...
Drew G. Faust might be known more as an academic light than a pop-culture icon. But she took a step toward becoming the latter this week as Glamour magazine named the Harvard president as one of its “Women of the Year.” The women’s magazine, which focuses on fashion and beauty, is releasing its annual list—featuring women from the fields of entertainment, business, and science—in its December issue. “When I said I’m not the ‘woman president...
...where we come in. The need to find--or create--order, arc and purpose in life and death is the root of art and religion. The difference between studying an animal's survival and writing her a poem is the difference between asking how and asking why. The latter may seem odd, but it's as much an adaptive response as a meerkat's serial mating. We are social creatures in a beautiful, cruel universe. We use whatever tools we can to survive...
...options are so limited? As MacKinnon pointed out, social science has documented that the vast majority of prostitutes suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence, and are also desperately poor. The Crimson Staff compares the prostitute to the “janitor or factory worker.” The latter two are not routinely raped as part of their job, and then told they consented...
...representative scheme of university governance, we must accept the unavoidable fact that we will always create a class of governing students and one of governed students. And no matter how closely the former reports to the latter, no matter how democratic a process leads to the selection of those classes, they will always remain separated. Such division is inherently incompatible with the academic utopia of the undergraduate body, where utter equality of conditions is an imperative...