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...nice to say that the families end up celebrating their differences and commending each other's bravery. They don't; Brian and Carmen still say they're disappointed that the other couple wasn't more open to their perspective. But it would be too bad if viewers decide the lesson of Black. White. is that it's safest not to talk about race at all. If the show teaches anything, it's that race is unignorably dyed into the American experience. And no amount of cold cream can wash...
...Vegas. Wynn canceled Avenue Q's run last month and will replace it with the splashier musical Monty Python's Spamalot in March 2007. For the nearly $2 billion national Broadway theater industry, which watched anxiously as show after show headed for Vegas, Q's failure is both lesson and opportunity. For some shows, maybe Seattle beats Vegas...
...have learned a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response to that is not more spin but a real sense of shame and sorrow that so many have died because of errors made by their superiors, and by writers like me. All this is true, and it needs to be faced. But it is also true that we are where we are. And true that there was no easy alternative three years...
...taking five classes this semester, left his Playstation 2 at home over Christmas break. “I thought I’d be more productive and use my time more wisely if I left it back at home,” he says.It’s a lesson Christopher H. Green ’08 learned through experience. Last year, he spent some 100 hours playing five or six seasons of “NCAA Football.” While he didn’t shut himself off from other students—he often played...
...undergraduate curriculum, taught popular courses each year, implemented a far-reaching financial aid initiative, and expanded study abroad opportunities. In many ways, Summers is their president. I have to remind myself that most current Harvard undergraduates are too young to even remember Cornel West. If there is one lesson to be learned from all of this, it’s that faculty and students perceive Summers very differently because they have fundamentally different relationships to him within the structure of the University...