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...choreography of its own. Evaluation of auditionees is now reduced to numbers on a sheet and an occasional, scribbled comment. Sometimes the most valuable communication is a meaningful glance between staff members. Hanley’s watch lies on the table, and between actors he announces the average length of a block of auditions. “Okay, I want to get it down to 25 minutes flat,” he says.Hanley mouths the words of the actors’ songs, staring intently at them, trying to observe every detail in the hopes that within some actor might...
Beyond individual appointments, Summers’ grander plan for Harvard was to centralize a sprawling University that had traditionally kept its schools at arm’s length from one another...
There are only two males in the packed bus—three if you include the driver, four if you include Vin Diesel on the tiny TV screens. For the most part, the girls on the bus are conservatively dressed, hair prim and shoulder-length or tied up in ponytails. The accessories of choice are gossip rags, shopping bags, and Starbucks cups. The girls in the very back giggle over the child actors in the “The Pacifier.” Other riders chat softly or fiddle with their iPods. The scene could be mistaken for a ride...
...secular Fatah party. As he offers visitors a bowl of fruit, al-Bitawi recalls how, after returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays, 70% of Palestinian women wear these clothes. It's normal." To al-Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course we would love to see Shari'a [Islamic...
...We’ve expressed ourselves at length to the administration about Deborah Foster’s situation,” Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie Buckler wrote in an e-mail yesterday afternoon. “University Hall seems responsive, even apologetic. This is a very hopeful sign, but we are eager for more than assurances,” Buckler added...