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Since its popular off-Broadway run in 1997, Eve Ensler’s poignantly tragic and humor-tinged series of monologues on female sexuality has become a mainstay on college campuses, and Harvard is no exception. Cohen claims her time on the Cantabrigian campus forced her to take notice of works like VM. Says Cohen, “Being at Harvard has made me think much more about issues about issues of gender...
...their catalogue of favored Presidents, even if his political legacy remains unclear. "The left's problem is that there is no Mitterrand doctrine, like the one De Gaulle left behind," notes Dominique Reynié , a political scientist at Sciences Po in Paris. Even on furthering European unity, a Mitterrand mainstay, his party is now divided. And the world is too interconnected, the state's power too constrained by the market, for any French president to adopt quite the same air of sovereignty Mitterrand made his own. He would be delighted that untangling his legacy will be a task for generations...
...judicial nominations, the President and his advisers are worried that the tart-tongued Justice may not have the people skills to manage the court, build consensus among its nine members and represent the institution in public. That may explain why the famously dyspeptic Scalia has become a merry mainstay on the A-list Washington social circuit of late. At parties ranging from a charity dinner at the Kuwaiti embassy two weeks ago to an Inaugural lunch at D.C.'s chic Caf?? Milano, guests have been surprised to find the once reclusive Scalia mixing with the city's power brokers, making...
Corriero—the one mainstay in the Harvard offense—continued her onslaught of goals this season by scoring in her 10th straight game. She equalized the score at 1-1 at 13:23 of the second period for her team-leading 22nd goal of the season. Chu hit Corriero on a clear out pass and Corriero took the puck past the UNH defense and scored...
This month, Marilynne Robinson will publish Gilead (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 247 pages), her second novel, 23 years after publishing her first. That book, Housekeeping, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award. It is a mainstay of book clubs and lists of the best novels of the 20th century. The anticipation of Robinson's follow-up has been urgent, loud and public. In 2001 even her pastor weighed in. "She seems not to be applying herself to using that gift as much as I hope she would," the Rev. Bruce Fischer told a local newspaper...