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Anyone familiar with Durang’s work will know that he does not write for children. His best plays are good-naturedly wicked send-ups of life??s pain and absurdity. They mine comic gold from such unfunny topics as depression, divorce, alcoholism, and infant mortality (as in his “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club produced this fall...
...that Third Eye Blind would be headlining Yardfest, you probably thought, “Well, I guess people would have been psyched about that 10 years ago.” You’d be wrong. The band, whose crystal meth-tinged mega-hit “Semi-Charmed Life?? blasted across college dorms in 1997, failed to elicit any major enthusiasm among a group of Harvard College ’98 alums polled by FM. “Who are they, again?” asks Christine Folch ’98. To be fair to Christine...
...Committee on College Life??is mainly interested in approving student groups that can be financially and programmatically sustainable from year to year,” states the Student Organizations Handbook. But when the Mock Trial Team was recognized as a Harvard student group two years ago, Roller found he encountered little resistence in his attempt to be recognized as an organization. “From the organizations that I’m involved in, it seems pretty easy to get recognized,” he says. “You just need a few faculty sponsors?...
...Purists might scoff at entrepreneurship, saying it has no place at a liberal arts college, and that undergraduates should wrestle with life??s big questions now, and later scheme how to make a quick buck...
...involving the causes of revolutions and peasant revolts to domestic issues pertaining to public policy and American civic life. Robert D. Putnam, last year’s Skytte Prize winner and the Malkin professor of public policy, said that her work emphasized the influence of the state on political life??an issue that had been largely ignored when scholars took more psychological and sociological approaches to political science. “She has transformed the way that political scientists looked at all these problems,” Putnam said. “She brought the state back into...