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...Stairs to the Roof” is a play that many theater-goers may never have heard of by a playwright they probably know quite well. One of Tennessee Williams’ earliest works and his first written deliberately for a mass audience, “Stairs” has never had the popular appeal of Williams’ later plays. Seemingly aware of this fact, visiting director Michael M. Donahue ’05 turns the Agassiz theater inside-out with an exciting and unconventional production that breathes vibrant life into a work that wouldn’t ordinarily...
Decker was a candidate for mayor earlier this year, but withdrew from the race. Since then both she and Simmons have announced that they are running in the special election for the Mass. State Senate Seat from which Anthony D. Galluccio resigned in January...
...Port-au-Prince slowing to a trickle, the Haitian government called off the search for survivors of the devastating earthquake that flattened much of the capital on Jan. 12. Though the death toll is impossible to pinpoint, government officials estimated that 150,000 corpses have been interred in mass graves; tens of thousands more remain buried under debris. As aid organizations struggle to deliver emergency provisions to the ravaged disaster zone--the U.N.'s World Food Programme estimated it has fed hundreds of thousands of people but cautioned that far more were going hungry--President Ren Prval issued...
...full-facial veils in certain public institutions. Originally a proposal had been made to pass a law prohibiting the coverings anywhere in public. But after a long and divisive debate, legislators were able to agree only on a ban in government offices, in public hospitals and on mass transit. Parliament will now decide whether any such law should be passed, although it's not expected to act until March...
...Policy is acting as if the problem has been just about solved, whereas the reality is that mass unemployment is a likely feature of the economy for quite some time to come,” he explained...