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...Petruchio’s attempts to tame the obstinate object of his affection, Katherine, the titular “shrew.” The induction, though, establishes the story as a play within a play; a drunkard is subjected to a cruel trick that convinces him he is a lord, and the rest of the play is performed by actors commissioned by the trick’s perpetrator to indulge the drunkard’s fantasy...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Modern Take on Shakespeare’s ‘Shrew’ Goes on at the Square | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...with Mike when they were back in college. Because the e-mails are all in a chain I can see the correspondence between the two: King wrote to his friend, “Did you get one of these? If not, mind if I send him your way? Good lord, this would be like somebody on the Crimson staff of 1979 getting in touch with a Harvard debater from . . . Truman?...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Date With Debate | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...decide what to include and what to leave out? You've included some very personal details.
 
I went through what I thought I should write, about being in government and social partnership and being Lord Mayor of Dublin and blah blah. And then I said, 'What were the questions I was always being asked?' My marriage broke up in 1987 and I was for years being asked about that. I thought, if I'm ever going to talk about it, it will be now. And then the Tribunal stuff ... That was easy enough to do because it just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Ireland Prime Minister Bertie Ahern | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Henry N. Beard ’67 and Douglas C. Kenney ’68, the co-authors of the “Lord of the Rings” spoof, founded the National Lampoon in 1970 along with Robert K. Hoffman ’70, who at the time was a senior at the College...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lampoon Publishes 'Twilight' Parody | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...year-old economist headed to New York City to hobnob with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly. In his inaugural speech to the international body on Sept. 26, Abhisit is expected to reference everything from sustainable development and foreign-investment incentives to the wisdom of Alfred Lord Tennyson. No doubt he will be warmly received. (Read "Can Prime Minister Abhisit Mend Thailand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man in the Middle | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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