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...everything old is new again. And some of the new is old. The surprise hit of the current season, which ended Wednesday, is The Drowsy Chaperone, in which a friendly hermit known only as Man in Chair (co-author Bob Martin) slips a 33-1/3 rpm record out of its sleeve and tells us we are about to hear A 1928 musical called guess what. In a trice, the gent's apartment is converted into a Broadway stage and the musical is performed, with Man in Chair's frequent interpolations on the biographies of the stars...
Eastern Sprints instead of the NCAA’s for the first time in nine years.“Of course we are thinking about the streak—we don’t want the season to end at Eastern Sprints,” heavyweight senior Laura Martin said. “We have to show that we are capable of racing with the best.”It would be a tough end for a varsity eight that placed third in the NCAA’s last year and sixth as a team. Changes made in the past...
...order to “encourage as many people to experiment as possible.” “My fear is that by requiring students to take Ec 10 for a full year some students were deterred,” Mankiw said. Before taking over last fall from Martin S. Feldstein ’61, the Baker professor of economics who taught the course for 21 years, Mankiw promised that any changes he would make to the course would be “evolutionary, not revolutionary.” Mankiw seems to have largely stuck to that goal, keeping...
...It’s a reflection of what’s going on throughout the whole country,” senior heavyweight Laura Martin said. “There has always been a novice program separate from the varsity, but now, we’re using the fastest freshman up into both the 2nd varsity eight and 1st varsity eight to get the best speed...
...retributive French peasants (“It just didn’t seem fair that some people could afford cornrows while others couldn’t afford corn,” Burkle says). When it is discovered that earnest and long-locked Charles Darnay (Liam R. Martin ’06) comes from an aristocratic stock, he is detained and set to become the latest victim of French peasants fighting for “liberté, egalité, vengeance.” As in Dickens’ novel, Darnay is spared by the sacrifice of Sydney Carton (Barry A. Shafrin...