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...first licensed high school edition of Rent. Though the script had been pruned of most of the roughest material, this is still a musical in which most of the characters are either on drugs, suffering from AIDS, or having sex with members of their own sex. Yet a precautionary letter she sent to parents of the cast seemed to defuse any outrage ("You go girl!" one parent wrote back), and the local paper gave the production a thumbs-up even before it was staged early this month. "The newspaper said, thank goodness the kids are dealing with the issues," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bye Bye, Birdie. Hello, Rent | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...have always had a strange obsession with dates—with the passage of time. When I was young, I would document the dates and times of every significant event of my personal life: the arrival of my college acceptance letter, or the last day of school. It was part of an obsessive compulsive desire to remember things in the future, a naïve hope that I could someday look back and revel in the fact that at 5:37 p.m. on a May 16, I took my last high school exam...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Different Type of Memory | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

More than 200 high school seniors stuck on Harvard’s waitlist will receive another letter from the admissions office—this time with better news...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 200 Taken Off Waitlist | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

...Belarus, and is now tied for first place with a coalition of more pro-Western parties - could enter government alongside nationalist Prime Minister Kostunica's DSS. Russia's ex-President Vladimir Putin, who provided critical backing for Serbia in its fight against Kosovo's independence, recently sent Kostunica a letter promising "deepening cooperation" between his United Russia party and the DSS. Both Serbian nationalist parties are dedicated to opposing Kosovo's independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo's Curse | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...negotiations to join the E.U, has become the subject of a hate campaign. After the signing of the E.U. agreement, the nationalist tabloid Kurir carried a photo of Tadic and a colleague toasting the deal under the headline "Serbian Pigs Rejoice! They Gave Away Kosovo!" Tadic reportedly received a letter recently accusing him of "treason" and promising him "a bullet in the forehead." Authorities are taking the threat seriously: Zoran Djindjic, the reformist Serbian Prime Minister who helped topple Milosevic, was assassinated in March 2003. Even by Serbian standards, the political atmosphere "has become poisoned," says Dragoljub Zarkovic, editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo's Curse | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

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