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...fortuity of Ibsen revivals generated two excellent productions: Trevor Nunn's staging of "The Lady from the Sea," starring Natasha Richardson, and Adrian Noble's "Brand," with Ralph Fiennes. (I missed Patrick Stewart in "The Master Builder"). Fiennes, his thin voice willing itself to fierce majesty, is ideal as Brand the mad priest, so devoted to saving people for God that he destroys them. The piece ends with a literally moving coup de theatre that ... well, go see for yourself. Cheapest round-trip New York-London airfare...
...arms. In Japan a scientist named T. Hirai showed that Zen meditators were so focused on the moment that they never habituated themselves to the sound of a ticking clock (most people eventually block out the noise, but the meditators kept hearing it for hours). Another study showed that master meditators, unlike marksmen, don't flinch at the sound of a gunshot. None of this, oddly, has been duplicated for a Vegas show...
This fall he will start a 10-month program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), putting him on track to receive a Master in Public Administration (MPA) degree exactly 50 years after he received his undergraduate diploma from the University of Notre Dame...
Mazzoli says he is concerned about the master program’s quantitative demands. He explains that he has not worked rigorously with numbers since his own undergraduate experience...
Former Stern School Acting Chair Richard E. Sylla ’62 said that even within a single field, Ferguson is a versatile master, simultaneously “a meticulous historian” and “a great synthesizer...